as in selfish
overly concerned with one's own desires, needs, or interests
regards today's young people as solipsistic slackers who have no knowledge of or interest in the world at large
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Recent Examples of solipsistic
But solipsistic efficiency simulates energy through perception.
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Emil Steiner, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
This was what attracted them, Mala said, because no Indian woman was allowed enough privacy to thus indulge in a solipsistic obsession with her own psychology—encouraged to chart the fluctuations of her temperament in response to deep crises that were inevitably banal.
—Kiran Desai, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2025
Sandler, a one-time registered and politically active Republican, is conveying to his audience a traditional conservative message: A life well lived is not a solipsistic one that exalts the self but an altruistic one that places the interests of others above all else.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
In fact, that country’s name has become shorthand for a certain solipsistic dread in American popular culture.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025
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Emil Steiner, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
This was what attracted them, Mala said, because no Indian woman was allowed enough privacy to thus indulge in a solipsistic obsession with her own psychology—encouraged to chart the fluctuations of her temperament in response to deep crises that were inevitably banal.
—Kiran Desai, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2025
Sandler, a one-time registered and politically active Republican, is conveying to his audience a traditional conservative message: A life well lived is not a solipsistic one that exalts the self but an altruistic one that places the interests of others above all else.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
In fact, that country’s name has become shorthand for a certain solipsistic dread in American popular culture.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for solipsistic
selfish
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Until crude vulgarians like Miller came along, no prominent American political figure would claim on our behalf a right to use our power for purely selfish ends, at the expense of other democratic states and foreign peoples.—
Bradley Gitz,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
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There are selfish motives as Hawk is also secretly trying to track down whoever is blackmailing him.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Solipsistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solipsistic. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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