solipsistn.adj.

1882 Mind 7 466 To bring to the miserable solipsist, shut up in the prison of his own consciousness, the slightest information as to the great outside world.

1898 Q. Rev. Jan. 65 A philosophy..in which, if consistent, we become subjective idealists and solipsists.

1968 Rev. Metaphysics 21 448 The creationist's (or annihilationist's) qualification of the solipsist's denial of past and future.

1991 J. L. Casti Searching for Certainty (1992) xii. 391 Unless you happen to be an unreconstructed solipsist, Mount Everest is definitely there; hence, certainly real.

1910 News & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) 3 Feb. 4/6 We have called it [sc. the Houston Post newspaper] nearly everything else within the range of parliamentary discussion, and are shocked to know that we really did not realize the depths of its depravity until advised by the Tribune. It's a solipsist.

1917 Mid-west Q. Oct. 4 Lest he be a merely selfish solipsist.

1969 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 July 745/5 All [the characters] are solipsists repressing their killer urge, or terrifying rushes of paternal love.

1989 ‘A. Cross’ Trap for Fools (1990) ix. 112 He was a solitary solipsist: he thought he was the only person in the world who mattered.

2005 S. Salerno Sham viii. 152 Whiny, Seinfeldian solipsists who rank their fondness for ‘emotionally unavailable’ lovers on a par with world hunger.

1895 Mind 4 86 The solipsist standpoint is wholly inadmissible. The sensations of an isolated being would never emerge into consciousness at all.

1903 A. E. Taylor Elem. Metaphysics iii. ii. 202 Why..did Berkeley..accept neither the solipsist nor the sceptical conclusion?

1992 D. R. Griffin Animal Minds (1994) i. 23 The solipsist philosopher who insists that he is the only conscious person in the universe.

2011 A. Gupta Truth, Meaning, Experience vii. 224 With the solipsist view in play, our ordinary experience does not converge to our objective conception of the world.

1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 July 559/2 The suggestion is, not that Miss Sitwell has a right to her solipsist universe,..but that a mind of the proper kind would work in this way.

1961 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 4 Jan. 4/7 He needs to learn about that society if his work is to be anything but solipsist in character.

1972 Last Whole Earth Catal. (Portola Inst.) 16/2 Solipsist tyrants, believing that their will, like their eyeballs, could move mountains, have come to believe that it should trample over these small annoying figures in their visual field.

2008 D. Mana in B. Szumskyj Dissecting Hannibal Lecter v. 92 Lecter is a solipsist character, self-centered like a gyroscope and basically unable to relate in any way with other characters.