Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Existing by one's or its own virtue alone, independently of any other cause.
Wiktionary
- adj. Existing without having been created.
- adj. Existing independent of any extrinsic sustaining force.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Existing of or by himself, independent of any other being or cause; -- .
Examples
“This hand seemed a thing apart, self-existent, with no corporeal attachment, and it appeared and disappeared like an apparition as the thumb-pressure wavered on the switch.”
“Alec was self-existent - the a singular line he did have he wasn't even upon shade for ... poor Cameron.”
“Of course, our self-centeredness, our distinctive attachment to the feeling of an independent, self-existent �I�, works fundamentally to inhibit our compassion.”
“Of course, our self-centeredness, our distinctive attachment to the feeling of an independent, self-existent �I�, works fundamentally to inhibit our compassion.”
“Like I said. kornbelt888: That, however, does not dispense with the problem of the ultimate ontological question of what is primary, self-existent.”
“That, however, does not dispense with the problem of the ultimate ontological question of what is primary, self-existent.”
“Did he also abandon the necessity of a self-existent thing of any kind?”
“You could try claiming that matter is eternally self-existent, but then you're on a hiding to nothing.”
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“Afflictive emotions require a fixed target, seemingly real and true, self-existent, and autonomous.”
“Of course, our self-centeredness, our distinctive attachment to the feeling of an independent, self-existent "I", works fundamentally to inhibit our compassion.”
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