selfsameness
English
Alternative forms
- self-sameness
Etymology
Noun
selfsameness (uncountable)
- The property of two or more appearances of being of the selfsame underlying object; sameness as regards self or identity; identity; identicality.
- There is no doubt about the selfsameness of the morning Sun with the evening Sun.
- 1876, F. H. Bradley, Ethical Studies:
- Now the first condition of the possibility of my guiltiness, or of my becoming a subject for moral imputation, is my self-sameness; I must be throughout one identical person.
Further reading
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “selfsameness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.