self-existence

English

Etymology

self- +‎ existence

Noun

self-existence (uncountable)

1. inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; an attribute peculiar to God.
   • 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation:

     If a first Body may to any Place
     Be not determin'd, in the boundless Space,
     'Tis plain, it then may absent be from all;
     Who then will this a Self-existence call?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “self-existence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)