Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Holding the view that the ego is the center, object, and norm of all experience.
- adjective Confined in attitude or interest to one's own needs or affairs.
- adjective Caring only about oneself; selfish.
- adjective Viewed or perceived from one's own mind as a center.
- adjective Taking one's own self as the starting point in a philosophical system.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or regarding self as the center of all things; centering in self; egoistic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having an attitude which is almost exclusively concerned with one's own needs or desires.
- noun a self-centered person with little regard for others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
selfish ,self-centered - adjective
Egotistical . - noun A person who is egocentric.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs
- noun a self-centered person with little regard for others
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Examples
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How egocentric is it for these postmodernist writers to whip up these verbose tomes without the slightest concern about reader engagement?
Watch as I Blow Your Mind darkerblogistan 2009
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Instead, the Grand Old Party failed to rise the occasion by selecting a man who can best be described as egocentric, morally bankrupt, dishonorable, and the true antithesis of what the party needs to be in these turbulent times.
Political Grind 2008
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Although undoubtedly popular today, what Boyd calls egocentric social networks are just one among many possible ways to think at network arrangements.
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In my childhood development classes, I think the inability to see beyond yourself was referred to as egocentric and I think in some ways the increasing use of the internet to develop communities has contributed to that.
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Eckhart Tolle in his book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose suggests that when we identify with something that is not our "authentic self" that we become trapped in a kind of egocentric or self-referential relationship to everything else.
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We've all seen this kind of egocentric "I'm Rightism" between individuals and how it can destroy relationships, fuel family feuds, and spawn conditions of resentment, bitterness and hatred.
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Eugene Robinson says he's "had it" with Rev. Wright and his "egocentric" response, and deconstructs the false claim, made four times yesterday by Wright at the National Press Club, that this was not an attack on him but an assault on the black church.
Rounding Up Wright's Wreck - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com 2008
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We've all seen this kind of egocentric "I'm Rightism" between individuals and how it can destroy relationships, fuel family feuds, and spawn conditions of resentment, bitterness and hatred.
Jim Selman: A New Year: Where We've Been And Where We're Going 2009
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See, this is the kind of egocentric and arrogant hypocrisy I find truly offensive, and it is particularly striking in atheists and other anti-Christians.
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It has taken humans such a long time to go from "egocentric" local units to objectively standardized.
frangarnes commented on the word egocentric
Egocéntrico
October 19, 2007