selfsameness

English

Alternative forms

• self-sameness

Etymology

selfsame +‎ -ness

Noun

selfsameness (uncountable)

1. 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

• “selfsameness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• famelessness