ipsissimosity

noun

ipsissimosity

noun

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

1

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

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