being-in-itself

== English == === Noun === being-in-itself (uncountable) (philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology) The self-contained and fully realized being or existence of objects. === See also === being-for-itself === References === being in itself on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Jean-Paul Sartre, trans. Hazel Barnes, Being and Nothingness, "Key to Special Terminology", 1984 Philosophical Library, Inc.