ipsissimosity
English
Etymology
From German Ipsissimosität, coined in 1886 by Friedrich Nietzsche from the Latin ipsissima (“very own”).
Noun
ipsissimosity (uncountable)
- Self-referentiality.
- 1907, Helen Zimmern (translator) of Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886
- 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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