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solipsistic, a.|sɒlɪpˈsɪstɪk|
[f. solipsism + -istic.]
= solipsist a.
1885W. James in Mind X. 37 Men who see each other's bodies sharing the same space..will never practically believe in a pluralism of solipsistic worlds. 1894The Forum May 308 They should not be made self-centred and solipsistic at an age when altruism ought to have its golden day. 1952A. Wilson Hemlock & After ii. iii. 145 His intense, solipsistic world of personal ambition. 1958I. Murdoch Bell xiv. 184 But now, driven by this fit of solipsistic melancholy one degree more desperate, she felt the need of an act. 1968A. Storr Human Aggression xi. 104 Psychopaths share with the schizophrenic the characteristic of living in a world which is predominantly solipsistic; that is, in which people and events are not valued in and for themselves, but only in so far as they affect the subject. 1971E. Shorris Death of Great Spirit iv. 66 The vision of Western man—seeing himself in the central role—might have been considered solipsistic only two hundred years ago. 1977Dædalus Summer 42 It expanded, not by conflicts and deals with equals, but by short spurts of solipsistic exuberance at the expense of much weaker neighbors.
Hence solipˈsistically adv.
1898W. James in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. of W. James (1935) II. 370 Take me solipsistically if you will. My talk is merely a description of my present field of experience. 1923Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Aug. 549/2 There are traits of experience which almost all of us are accustomed to explain solipsistically—our dream-worlds. 1952Mind LXI. 10 We each solipsistically confined ourselves to statements which we may properly claim to know to be true directly. 1981Times Lit. Suppl. 8 May 512/3 The real tramps aren't..made miserable by self-consciousness. For the most part, they seem solipsistically content, boozily quarrelling. |