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[[File:Bust of Julius Caesar from History of the World (1902).png|thumb|upright|An engraving of the 1st century bust of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Julius Caesar] from the Farnese collection, on display at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.]] | [[File:Bust of Julius Caesar from History of the World (1902).png|thumb|upright|An engraving of the 1st century bust of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Julius Caesar] from the Farnese collection, on display at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ille ille]'' (“that man; he”) + ''-ism'', modelled on [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/egoism egoism]. | From Latin ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ille ille]'' (“that man; he”) + ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ism -ism]'', modelled on [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/egoism egoism]. | ||
===Katakana Transliteration=== | ===Katakana Transliteration=== | ||
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English
Etymology
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From Latin ille (“that man; he”) + -ism, modelled on egoism.
Katakana Transliteration
- イリーイズム (irīizumu)
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.
- Douglas Bruster (2007): Editors sometimes misattribute lines due to characters using illeism.
Derived terms
- [illeist]
Related terms
- [illeity]
See also
References
Further reading
English terms suffixed with -ism People
- ↑ From The History of the World; a Survey of a Man’s Record, edited by Hans F. Helmolt (1902–1907).