self-evidence

English

Etymology

self- +‎ evidence

Noun

self-evidence (uncountable)

1. The quality of being self-evident.
   • 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, IV. vii. 10:

     Any... man knows, that the whole is equal to all its parts, or any other maxim, and all from the same reason of self-evidence.

Translations

the quality of being self-evident

• Bulgarian: очеви́дност (bg) f (očevídnost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不言而喻 (zh) (bùyán'éryù)

• Dutch: duidelijkheid (nl) f, vanzelfsprekendheid (nl) f
• Finnish: itsestäänselvyys (fi)
• German: Selbstverständlichkeit (de) f
• Italian: ovvietà (it) f
• Romanian: înțelegere de la sine f
• Russian: очеви́дность (ru) n (očevídnostʹ)

References

• “self-evidence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.