[sol-ip-siz-uh
m] 
| 1. | Philosophy. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist. |
| 2. | extreme preoccupation with and indulgence of one's feelings, desires, etc.; egoistic self-absorption. |
| sol·ip·sism (sŏl'ĭp-sĭz'əm, sō'lĭp-) n. Philosophy
[Latin sōlus, alone; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + Latin ipse, self + -ism.] sol'ip·sist n., sol'ip·sis'tic adj. |
The belief that all reality is just one's own imagining of reality, and that one's self is the only thing that exists.
solipsism
in philosophy, formerly, moral egoism (as used in the writings of Immanuel Kant), but now, in an epistemological sense, the extreme form of subjective idealism that denies that the human mind has any valid ground for believing in the existence of anything but itself. The British idealist F.H. Bradley, in Appearance and Reality (1897), characterized the solipsistic view as follows: "I cannot transcend experience, and experience is my experience. From this it follows that nothing beyond myself exists; for what is experience is its (the self 's) states."
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