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Self-existent

//ˌsɛlfɛɡzˈɪstənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Existing without having been created.
  2. 2
    Existing independent of any extrinsic sustaining force.

    "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."

Etymology

From self- + existent.

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