Metaph. [f. L. ā from, se oneself + -ITY; cf. F. aséité.] Underived or independent existence.
1691. Norris, Ideal & Int. World, I. (1701), 7. The Natural World … for any self Stability, Aseity, or Essential Immutability of its own, may again cease to be.
c. 1700. Gentl. Instruc. (1732), 425 (D.). By what mysterious light have you discovered that aseity is entail’d on matter?
1824. Coleridge, Aids to Refl. (1848), I. 270. The obscure and abysmal subject of the divine A-seity.
