self-existent

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˌsɛlfɛɡzˈɪstənt/   

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Existing without having been created. not-comparable
  2. Existing independent of any extrinsic sustaining force. not-comparable
    — 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.

词汇关系

相关词
self-existence God

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English existent
English self-existent
From self- + existent.
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