Meanings
- literarynot comparablerareThrough or by that very act or quality; thereby.
For example, Jim Ruben's remarks are illustrative of neofuturist thinking in which technologies eo ipso impact favorably the political process: “democracy itself . . . is due for a retooling to function in a different world” (1983, 59).
2000, Anthony G. Wilhelm, Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace, Routledge, →ISBN, page 201 more example
When we demand an object from somebody, its “use value” (the fact that it serves to satisfy some of our needs) eo ipso becomes a form of expression of its “exchange value”; the object in question functions as an index of a network of intersubjective relations.
1998, Slavoj Žižek, chapter 1, in Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latineo ipso
- Englisheo ipso
Borrowed from Latin eo ipso, ablative form of id ipsum (“that (thing) itself”).
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German darum, dadurch
- darumThrough or by that very act or quality; thereby
- dadurchThrough or by that very act or quality; thereby
- deswegenThrough or by that very act or quality; thereby
- deshalbThrough or by that very act or quality; thereby
Polish eo ipso
- eo ipsoThrough or by that very act or quality; thereby
Spanish eo ipso
- eo ipsoThrough or by that very act or quality; thereby
Cite this entry
eo ipso. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eo%20ipso
“eo ipso.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eo%20ipso. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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