solipsism
noun
the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.
solipsist
-
a word derived from
solipsism.
Example Sentences
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I have been the young solipsist, the cocky college kid, the judgy midlife Karen.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
He was a solipsist of the first waters whose paternalistic populism represented just as radical of a break with the American system as that of Woodrow Wilson.
From Fox News ● Jul. 8, 2019
Orme is a loquacious self-explainer, which is another way of saying that he is a helpless solipsist.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015
Dunham’s Hannah Horvath is not the type to ask many questions about the nature of art: She is a solipsist uninterested in real questions about solipsism.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2012
In fact, it is just the view that the immediate object of apprehension consists in a determination of the mind which forms the basis of the solipsist position.
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Harold Arthur Prichard
