ipséité
French, noun/ip.se.i.te/
ipséité is spelled I-P-S-É-I-T-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 136,634th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ipséité is a French feminine noun meaning “ipseity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Identité propre ; ce qui fait qu’une personne est unique et absolument distincte d’une autre”.
What does ipséité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineipseity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Identité propre ; ce qui fait qu’une personne est unique et absolument distincte d’une autre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ipséité
- ipséités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ipséité?
- /ip.se.i.te/
- \ip.se.i.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ipséité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ipséité in French?
ipséité appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).