Metaph. [f. L. sōl-us alone + ipse self.] The view or theory that self is the only object of real knowledge or the only thing really existent.
a. 1881. A. Barratt, Phys. Metempiric (1883), 25. At any rate, Solipsism, if not inconceivable, is in the highest degree incredible.
1884. A. Seth, in Contemp. Rev., Feb., 294. As long as we confine ourselves to the world given in experience, Mr. Barratt maintains, we must profess solipsism.
1895. G. Tyrrell, in Month, May, 27. Under pain of ‘solipsism,’ of being shut up within our own subjectivity.
Hence Solipsismal a.
1892. G. M. McCrie, Miss Naden’s World-Scheme, 28. The existence of ‘other selves,’ being secondarily inferred, in no way touches the prime fact of solipsismal monism.
