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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
solipsistic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Di Rosa's view that art can change the world is perhaps solipsistic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At first I was brazenly happy, bullish with solipsistic joy; yet most of the time I was puzzlingly, naggingly unhappy.
▪ If Gilbert Racy took little account of ecclesiastical structures, his attitude to secular ones was solipsistic.
▪ More authentic religious inspirations would challenge this schizoid and solipsistic stance.
▪ To Baddiel it was solipsistic and showed the limits of a diarist.
▪ What a solipsistic lot those Big Chillies were, and how you itched to slap them out of their self-obsession.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
solipsistic

1882, from solipsism + -istic. Related: Solipsist; solipsistically.

Wiktionary
solipsistic

a. of, relating to, or being disposed to solipsism

Usage examples of "solipsistic".

You think anybody in their right minds would ally themselves with an aggressively solipsistic borganism?

I told him, in the midst of some rambling solipsistic monologue, about my inheritance and the mixture of comfort and paralysis I felt whenever I thought of it.

At this level, radical emphasis on seeing everything within a relativistic or subjective frame of reference leaves the person close to a solipsistic position.

They were solipsistic pinpoints in the galactic night, their humanity a forgotten pulp behind black armor.

His parents had apparently been hippies in the sixties and inflicted much upon him as a result of their rather solipsistic new age cant.

For the duration of the lightning barrage, as I faced my ghostly reflection, I had a flash of solipsistic fear, which sprang from weariness and sadness, the feeling that only I really existed, that I encompassed all creation, and that everything and everyone else was a figment of my imagination.

But then, as the last beat of lightning pulsed and faded, as transparency flowed back into the glass, I was startled by something that clung to the outside of the rain-washed window, and the sight of it blew away the solipsistic fantasy.

In a field teeming with clones, retreads, and solipsistic doorstoppers, Wells dares—and gloriously succeeds—to be different.

The presence of an infant intruded upon Sol's solipsistic life as a serious academic and Sarai's profession as music critic for Barnard's datasphere, but neither minded.