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ipso facto

UK/ˌɪpsəʊ ˈfæktəʊ/

ipso facto adverb: by that very fact itself; actually.

Adverb

ipso facto (not comparable)

  1. By that very fact itself; actually.
    • Cope was not long in feeling him as operating on the unconscious assumption—unconscious, and therefore all the more damnable—that the young man in business constituted, ipso facto, a kind of norm by which other young men in other fields of endeavor were to be gauged: […]1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope at His House Party”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 94
    • For [Ludwig von] Mises or [Murray] Rothbard, it is simply confused to posit latent preferences; if two individuals fail to make an exchange, then this ipso facto demonstrates that at that moment at least one of them would not have benefited from the exchange.1999 April, Bryan Caplan, “The Austrian Search for Realistic Foundations”, in Southern Economic Journal, volume 65, number 4, page 833

Adjective

ipso facto (not comparable)

  1. Being such by itself, or by its own definition; inherent.
    • Is not the reading of another's diary an ipso facto act of voyeurism?1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 13

ipso facto meaning in Tamil and Urdu

ipso facto in Tamil

அதன் காரணமாகவே, அதன் காரணமாகவே அது நிமித்தமாக, அது காரணமாகவே, அவ்வுண்மை காரணமாகவே

ipso facto in Urdu

ipso facto, oneself, automatically
اپنے آپ apne āp

Examples of ipso facto in a sentence

  • We've imbued "natural food" with such virtuous connotations that meat supposedly raised according to the law of nature is, ipso facto, thought to be an ethically worthwhile choice.2011 April 8, James McWilliams, “An Inconvenient Truth: Free-Range Meat Isn't 'Natural'”, in The Atlantic:
  • Ipso facto, there would be a lot of interior space down here.2023 October 10, HarryBlank, “The Cruelest Fight”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:

Origin of ipso facto

Borrowed from Latin ipsō factō (“by the fact itself”).

Questions about ipso facto

What does ipso facto mean?
Ipso facto means by that very fact itself; actually.
What is ipso facto in Tamil?
Ipso facto in Tamil is அதன் காரணமாகவே, அதன் காரணமாகவே அது நிமித்தமாக, அது காரணமாகவே. See Ipso facto meaning in Tamil.
How do you use ipso facto in a sentence?
We've imbued "natural food" with such virtuous connotations that meat supposedly raised according to the law of nature is, ipso facto, thought to be an ethically worthwhile choice.
What part of speech is ipso facto?
Ipso facto can be an adverb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce ipso facto?
Ipso facto is pronounced /ˌɪpsəʊ ˈfæktəʊ/ (UK).

Words near ipso facto in the dictionary

  1. ipsipulsion
  2. ipsissima verba
  3. ipsissimosity
  4. ipsiversive
  5. IPSO
  6. ipso facto
  7. ipso gender
  8. Ipstones
  9. Ipswich
  10. Ipswich sparrow
  11. Ipswich sparrows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ipso facto (page history and authors); ipso facto (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اپنے آپ (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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