idem \AHY-dem, ID-em\,
pronoun:
the same as previously given or mentioned.
Moreover, the EU presents a governance system where the authority of government is dispersed into multiple levels and institutions (idem, p. 20).
-- Giovanni Moro, "Citizens in Europe," 2011
Indeed, if narrative identity is the identity of the characters associated with this leisure life-world, it is also the identity which links ipse and idem.
-- Tony Blackshaw, "Leisure Life," 2003
Idem stems from the Latin word of the same spelling which meant essentially "it."
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