solipsism
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Solipsism does not fully explain England’s many and varied disappointments over the last 55 years, but it is certainly a contributory factor.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2021
Solipsism has turned into shtick, and their childish interest in themselves betrays a confining lack of curiosity about anything else.
From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2013
Solipsism — throughout all of Wallace’s fiction — is the great danger of modern life.
From Time • May 19, 2013
Solipsism, the word they used, is a kind of self-obsession or egocentricity.
From Slate • Oct. 16, 2012
Solipsism, sol′ip-sizm, n. the theory that self-existence is the only certainty, absolute egoism—the extreme form of subjective idealism.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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