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selfsameness

noun

Etymology

From selfsame + -ness.

  1. derived from *sem-✻ — “one, together”
  2. derived from samr — “same; agreeing, of one mind”
  3. derived from *swé✻ — “self”
  4. derived from self
  5. inherited from self sam
  6. suffixed as selfsameness — “selfsame + ness”

Definitions

  1. The property of two or more appearances of being of the selfsame underlying object

    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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for selfsameness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA