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SELFSAME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does selfsame mean?
• SELFSAME (adjective)
The adjective SELFSAME has 1 sense:
1. being the exact same one; not any other:
Familiarity information: SELFSAME used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being the exact same one; not any other:
Synonyms:
Context example:
the very man I want to see
Similar:
same (same in identity)
Derivation:
selfsameness (the quality of being identical with itself)
Context examples
It is a great task to transmute feeling and sensation into speech, written or spoken, that will, in turn, in him who reads or listens, transmute itself back into the selfsame feeling and sensation.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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