Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to solipsism.
Wiktionary
- adj. of, relating to, or being disposed to solipsism
Examples
“Functional theories that recognize no content-determining external relata have been called solipsistic (Harman 1987).”
“You seem to have erred in characterizing as solipsistic those solons who dangled a participle in drafting the law controlling the National Endowment for the Arts.”
“This conversation started off ad hominem: I'm "solipsistic," misguided, I'm politically motivated, I'm ignorant of the basic facts and of the "meaning" of the text.”
“Alright, instead of "not very grown up" would you be happy with 'solipsistic', or 'not self-aware', or 'immature', or 'underdeveloped'?”
“Though Mrs Brown's choice of gifts was praised as thoughtful, Mrs Obama's choice of gifts for Fraser and John was 'solipsistic'.”
“Equally insulting, decided the Times of London, was Michelle Obama's "solipsistic" and”
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“Equally insulting, decided the Times of London, was Michelle Obama's "solipsistic" and "inherently dismissive" gifts to the Browns 'two little boys, Fraser and John.”
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“We all make our own "solipsistic" derivations of the text, based on our own scholarly biases and cultural preconceptions, whether we're laymen or academics, because we're translating poetry.”
“I didn't presume in some kind of solipsistic or narcissistic way that my struggle or my story would be interesting because it was mine.”
“Not wanting to appear a jerk, the reviewer starts using adjectives like "solipsistic",”
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philosophical adjectives
Common and not-so-common adjectives found while studying philosophy.
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Way too pretentious.
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JesusIsLord's Words
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
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My words, generally
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Tweets
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Prolagus Ugh. Feb 19, 2009
frogapplause "At Home" is too solipsistic, too beholden to the confessional tenets of the therapeutic movement to be a first-rate memoir. But if it often bears an uncomfortable resemblance to an analyst's session, it's also a far cry from "Here but Not Here," Lillian Ross' self-aggrandizing account of her affair with the New Yorker editor William Shawn.
-- MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Feb 19, 2009