self-existent
adjUK /ˌsɛlfɛɡzˈɪstənt/
Etymology From self- + existent.
1
Existing without having been created.
2
Existing independent of any extrinsic sustaining force.
- Campbell exquisitely says, "'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view:" and let the heart be thankful from its inmost depths for that imaginative and self-existent faculty which first lends enchantment to the distance.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 89:
- Related terms
- self-existence, God