Definition of self-existent in English:
self-existent
adjective sɛlfɪɡˈzɪst(ə)nt
Existing independently of other beings or causes.
Example sentencesExamples
- Discrimination of meaning comes when one imagines that words rise depending upon whatever subjects they express, and which subjects are regarded as self-existent.
- He is identified with the self-existent Supreme.
- Christians, in contrast, believe that nothing can be self-existent other than God Himself.
- Many scientists do believe that the universe is self-existent - that God is not necessary - and that life is the result of chance occurrences.
- In the Buddhist tradition, I suppose you could call this experiential knowledge of his own ‘emptiness’ or his non self-existent nature.
- It means ‘I am who I am’ and thus ‘the self-existent One’.