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ipsissimosity

ipsissimosity noun: self-referentiality.

Noun

ipsissimosity (uncountable)

  1. Self-referentiality.
    • who has not been sick to death of everything subjective and its accursed ipsissimosity!1907, Helen Zimmern (translator) of Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886

Origin of ipsissimosity

From German Ipsissimosität, coined in 1886 by Friedrich Nietzsche from the Latin ipsissima (“very own”).

Questions about ipsissimosity

What does ipsissimosity mean?
Ipsissimosity means self-referentiality.
What part of speech is ipsissimosity?
Ipsissimosity is a noun.

Words near ipsissimosity in the dictionary

  1. ipsilaterally
  2. ipsilesional
  3. ipsilesionally
  4. ipsipulsion
  5. ipsissima verba
  6. ipsissimosity
  7. ipsiversive
  8. IPSO
  9. ipso facto
  10. ipso gender
  11. Ipstones

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