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solipsist

adjective, noun

solipsist is an adjective meaning “Of, or pertaining to, solipsism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-L-I-P-S-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does solipsist mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, or pertaining to, solipsism.

noun

  1. 1

    One who adheres to self-absorption and an ignorance of the views or needs of others.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of solipsist

  • solipsists plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is solipsist?

Solipsist appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Solipsist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germansolipsistisch (pertaining to solipsism), Solipsist (One who adheres to self-absorption and an…)
Frenchsolipsiste (One who adheres to self-absorption and an…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does solipsist come from?

From solipsism + -ist.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).