Editing Illeism

==English==

===Etymology===
[[File:Bust of Julius Caesar from History of the World (1902).png|thumb|upright|An engraving of the 1st century bust of [[w:Julius Caesar|Julius Caesar]] from the Farnese collection, on display at the [[w:National Archaeological Museum, Naples|National Archaeological Museum]] in Naples, Italy.<ref>From ''The History of the World; a Survey of a Man’s Record'', edited by Hans F. Helmolt (1902–1907).</ref> In his ''[[w:Commentarii de Bello Gallico|Commentarii de Bello Gallico]]'' (58–49 BCE), Caesar used illeism to give an air of impartiality to the account, including justifications of his own actions.]]

From Latin ''ille'' (“that man; he”) + ''-ism'', modelled on [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/egoism egoism]].

===Pronunciation===
* /ˈɪliːɪzəm/ (RP)
* /ˈɪliɪzəm/ (GA)

===Noun===
'''illeism''' (uncountable)

# The practice of (often excessive) referring to oneself in the third person.
# Excessive use of the pronoun “he”, especially in reference to oneself; the habit of speaking of oneself in the third person.
#* Lewis Walker (2002): “Illeism with a difference” occurs when a character refers to himself by name rather than a pronoun.
#* S. Viswanathan (2005): The device of illeism appears in Elizabethan drama and earlier traditions.
#* Anu Garg (2007): Illeism is especially common among professional athletes.
#* Douglas Bruster (2007): Editors sometimes misattribute lines due to characters using illeism.

====Derived terms====
* [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/illeist illeist]]

====Related terms====
* [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/illeity illeity]]

====See also====
* [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nosism nosism]]
* [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuism tuism]]

===References===

===Further reading===
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illeism Illeism on Wikipedia]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_suffixed_with_-ism English terms suffixed with -ism]
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