solipsistic
adjective
so·lip·sis·tic
ˌsō-ləp-ˈsi-stik 
ˌsä-
: of, relating to, or characterized by solipsism or extreme egocentricity
The new punks can only rant about solipsistic concerns: themselves, their friends and girlfriends, and us, the people they think look at them funny.—
Bob Gulla
Bob GullaPlayed by a ferocious cast of nonactors, the dead-end adolescent rebels in Kids are like a wolf pack of baby sociopaths, leaping from one solipsistic sensation to the next.—Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
solipsistically
adverb
What we say to ourselves is often quite similar to what we say to each other, because we solipsistically forget that we are in fact speaking to someone else.
—James Wood
James Wood
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regards today's young people as solipsistic slackers who have no knowledge of or interest in the world at large
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Needless to say, this particular motive is not mentioned in Biden’s solipsistic and self-pitying statement.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
The old tourist is essentially the boorish figure from the headlines—solipsistic, oriented toward the self, someone who superimposes their fantasies onto a place and then is outraged when their expectations aren’t met.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 30 June 2024
Jude’s cynical social perceptions and teasing sympathy toward strivers like Angela and her common-man subjects surpass the efforts of all his clueless filmmaking contemporaries, such as Wes Anderson, who packs whimsy into his Roald Dahl anthology only to create solipsistic distraction.
—Armond White, National Review, 22 Mar. 2024
This assessment dovetails with a common criticism of autobiographical fiction, which holds that such work is inherently solipsistic.
—Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
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Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
The old tourist is essentially the boorish figure from the headlines—solipsistic, oriented toward the self, someone who superimposes their fantasies onto a place and then is outraged when their expectations aren’t met.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 30 June 2024
Jude’s cynical social perceptions and teasing sympathy toward strivers like Angela and her common-man subjects surpass the efforts of all his clueless filmmaking contemporaries, such as Wes Anderson, who packs whimsy into his Roald Dahl anthology only to create solipsistic distraction.
—Armond White, National Review, 22 Mar. 2024
This assessment dovetails with a common criticism of autobiographical fiction, which holds that such work is inherently solipsistic.
—Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
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“Solipsistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solipsistic. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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