English

Alternative forms

• self-sameness

Noun

selfsameness ‎(uncountable)

1. The property of two or more appearances of being of the selfsame underlying object; sameness as regards self or identity.

   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.

External links

• selfsameness in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911