How to Use solipsism in a Sentence

solipsism

noun
  • There is no way of knowing, again, because of the solipsism problem.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The solipsism of low self-esteem is one of the wonders of the human psyche.
    — Vivian Gornick, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The parts are in place for a staggering amount of literary solipsism.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Art both refines and connects, bridging the chasm between our solipsism and the world.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Anyway, what is solipsism in wartime but the selfishness of survival?
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2016
  • Trump’s relentless solipsism can exhaust even some of his closest aides.
    — Todd S. Purdum, The Hive, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Fichte did not mean to justify solipsism or mere selfishness.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • In this age of extreme solipsism, playing one note as a group felt like a powerful achievement.
    — Ayla Samli, Longreads, 14 May 2024
  • Anything less carries the risk of solipsism, and self-absorption.
    — New York Times, 18 Oct. 2021
  • No force keeps her from having both, other than her own unacknowledged solipsism.
    — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • As is often the case when a character starts throwing around charges of solipsism, the same could be said of the movie itself.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
  • But many progressive activists see that as an excuse for solipsism that serves to maintain the status quo.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Open City can’t be said to endorse Julius’s aesthetic solipsism.
    — Adam Kirsch, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Together, the movies represented a brazen act of pop solipsism, with the raw fury of a breakup album.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • Think about your personal devices, those technologies of solipsism that have flourished in the past two decades.
    — Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 29 June 2016
  • Are there only two paths for photography—vampirism and solipsism?
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • This is solipsism, not theatre (or, at least, not interesting theatre).
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2016
  • But her new images, captured on the edge of a pandemic, also subtly upend that solipsism.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2020
  • What such critics see as a license for solipsism was in truth a call to recognize and respect the dignity of others.
    — New York Times, 6 June 2018
  • The political sphere, as has become super apparent, is a bad place for solipsism.
    — Thomas Harlander, Los Angeles Magazine, 27 June 2018
  • For Moshfegh, pride is replaced by solipsism as the dangerous pleasure that must be overcome.
    — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
  • Stiller is well-aware of the solipsism within this process that is, allegedly, documenting somebody else’s life.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But there was, at least, an emergence from cultural stasis and solipsism into self-consciousness.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2016
  • Not from the Hollywood world of solipsism and excess, certainly.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Esquire, 20 Aug. 2007
  • The solipsism problem thwarts efforts to explain consciousness.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Some reviewers said his writing betrayed a solipsism that was extreme even by the generous standards to which memoirists are held.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2021
  • His aspirations remain heartbreakingly close to the surface, but his solipsism is kept firmly at bay.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021
  • An entirely individual morality, in its vision, is a kind of solipsism doomed to fail.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2020
  • There’s a risk of high-minded solipsism in the genre of art-appreciation memoir, but Ferris is as down-to-earth as his subject.
    — Julian Lucas, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Even the most optimistic women give up in frustration in the face of Krystal’s overwhelming solipsism.
    — Melissa Locker, Time, 31 Jan. 2018

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