[f. EGO + -ITY.] a. Selfhood; that which forms the essence of personal identity. b. (See quot. 1867.)
1651. Biggs, New Disp., 213. Our individual singularity and egoity.
1667. H. More, Div. Dial., II. xvii. (1713), 139. Those mysterious depths of Satan which the Theosophers so diligently discover, such as are Ipseity, Egoity, or Selfishness.
1722. Wollaston, Relig. Nat., ix. (1738), 198. If you would permit me to use a school term, I would say the egoity remains.
1867. J. H. Stirling, trans. Schwegler’s Hist. Philos. (ed. 8), 261. We are to understand … not the particular individual, but the universal ego, universal reason…. Egoity and individuality, the pure and the empirical ego, are entirely different ideas.
