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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" [syn: identical, selfsame, very]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century being the one mentioned or in question ; identical <left the selfsame day> Synonyms: see same • selfsameness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

attrib.adj. (prec. by the) the very same (the selfsame village).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Selfsame Self"same, a. [Self, a. + same.] Precisely the same; the very same; identical. His servant was healed in the selfsame hour. --Matt. viii. 13.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see self-same

Moby Thesaurus

Doppelganger, actual thing, alike, all one, all the same, carbon copy, consubstantial, copy, dead ringer, ditto, double, duplicate, equivalent, exact, exact counterpart, exactly alike, facsimile, homograph, homonym, homoousian, homophone, idem, identic, identical, identical same, indistinguishable, just alike, like, no other, none other, one, replica, same, spit and image, spitting image, synonym, the same, the same difference, twin, undifferent, very, very image, very same, without difference, without distinction