Selfsameness

Alternative forms

• self-sameness

Origin

selfsame + -ness

Full definition of selfsameness

Noun

1. The property of two or more appearances of being of the selfsame underlying object; sameness as regards self or identity.There is no doubt about the selfsameness of the morning Sun with the evening Sun.
• 1876, F. H. Bradley, Ethical Studies:Now the first condition of the possibility of my guiltiness, or of my becoming a subject for moral imputation, is my self-sameness; I must be throughout one identical person.