different between selfsameness vs selfsame

English

Alternative forms

• self-sameness

Etymology

selfsame +? -ness

Noun

selfsameness (uncountable)

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.

Further reading

• selfsameness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• famelessness

English

Alternative forms

• self-same
• self same (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English selve same; equivalent to self +? same. Compare Old High German selbsama (“selfsame, identical”), Danish selvsamme (“selfsame, identical”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?lf.se?m/

Adjective

selfsame (not comparable)

1. Precisely the same; the very same; identical.

   Synonyms: identical, same

   Antonyms: different, other

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:selfsame.

Derived terms

• selfsameness

Translations

Further reading

• selfsame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• selfsame in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• alms-fees, fameless