self-existent

English

Etymology

self- +‎ existent

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛlfɛɡzˈɪstənt/

Adjective

self-existent (comparative more self-existent, superlative most self-existent)

1. Existing without having been created.
2. Existing independent of any extrinsic sustaining force.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 89:

     Campbell exquisitely says, "'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view:" and let the heart be thankful from its inmost depths for that imaginative and self-existent faculty which first lends enchantment to the distance.

See also

• God