aseity

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From Medieval Latin aseitas (“state of being by itself”), from Classical Latin a se + -itas.

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aseity (countable and uncountable, plural aseities)

  1. (theology, metaphysics, usually ascribed to deity) The attribute of being entirely self-derived, in contrast to being derived from or dependent on another; the quality of having within oneself the entire reason for one's being; utter independent self-existence and self-sustenance.
    • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience […] ‎[1], London: Folio Society, published 2008, page 374:
      He is Spiritual, for were He composed of physical parts, some other power would have to combine them into the total, and his aseity would thus be contradicted.

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