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From selfsame +‎ -ness.

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selfsameness (uncountable)

  1. The property of two or more appearances of being of the selfsame underlying object; sameness as regards self or identity; identity; identicality.
    There is no doubt about the selfsameness of the morning Sun with the evening Sun.
    • 1876, F. H. Bradley, Ethical Studies:
      Now the first condition of the possibility of my guiltiness, or of my becoming a subject for moral imputation, is my self-sameness; I must be throughout one identical person.

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