aseity

From Medieval Latin aseitas (“state of being by itself”), from Classical Latin a se + -itas.

• enPR: ə-sēˈ -ĭ-tē; IPA^(key): /əˈ siːɪti/

aseity (countable and uncountable, plural aseities)

1. (theology, metaphysics, usually ascribed to deity) The attribute of being entirely self-derived, in contrast to being derived from or dependent on another; the quality of having within oneself the entire reason for one's being; utter independent self-existence and self-sustenance.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 374:

     He is Spiritual, for were He composed of physical parts, some other power would have to combine them into the total, and his aseity would thus be contradicted.

• contingency
• createdness
• dependence
• derivedness

• eternality
• existence