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ipsissimosity en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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

wikipedia: Friedrich Nietzsche