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solipsistic

adjective

solipsistic is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or being disposed to solipsism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-L-I-P-S-I-S-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does solipsistic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, relating to, or being disposed to solipsism.

  2. 2

    Self-centred, selfish, unaware or out of touch with 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 solipsistic

  • more solipsistic comparative
  • most solipsistic superlative

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

How common is solipsistic?

Solipsistic appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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).

Solipsistic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germansolipsistisch (solipsistic), selbstbezogen, selbstsüchtig, ichbezogen, egozentrisch, egoistisch (self-centered, selfish)

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 solipsistic come from?

From solips(ism) + -istic.

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