selfsameness

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self·same

(sĕlf′sām′)

adj.

Being the very same; identical.

self′same′ness n.

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selfsameness

(ˈsɛlfˌseɪmnəs)

the quality or state of being selfsame or identical

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selfsameness - the quality of being identical with itself

identicalness, indistinguishability, identity - exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests"

selfsameness

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The quality or condition of being exactly the same as something else:

identicalness, identity, oneness, sameness.

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In that case we may speak about temporal selfsameness, understood as conflation of the narrating and the narrated, which thematically and symbolically correlates with the spatial selfsameness: the room that the narrator never leaves for the duration of the narrative.

Theatrical Narrative--Samuel Beckett's Molloy

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