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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin solus alone + ipse self Date: 1874 a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing; also extreme egocentrism • solipsist noun • solipsistic adjective • solipsistically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Philos. the view that the self is all that exists or can be known. Derivatives: solipsist n. solipsistic adj. solipsistically adv. Etymology: L solus alone + ipse self

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Solipsism So*lip"sism, n. [L. solus alone + ipse self.] 1. (Ethics) Egotism. --Krauth-Fleming. 2. (Metaph.) Egoism. --Krauth-Fleming.