solipsist

C2 Topic:Mind & Cognition
US /ˈsɑləpsɪst/ UK /ˈsɒlɪpsɪst/
noun adj Freq #326904

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a person who treats only their own mind as certain to exist, or who is extremely self-absorbed

    The narrator sounds like a solipsist, unable to imagine other minds.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a person who treats only... egotist
Opposites
Word family
Related forms solipsismsolipsistic

Etymology

From solipsism + -ist, from Latin solus ('alone') and ipse ('self').

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