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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the personality trait that causes one to attempt to get personal recognition for oneself (especially by unacceptable means).

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  • noun The constant following of one's egotistical desires to an extreme.

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  • noun concern for your own interests and welfare

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Examples

  • Preoperational egocentrism is what Piaget called it.

    Sound Politics: Die Nanny State, Die 2006

  • I'm not sure that 'egocentrism' is necessarily the right way to categorize the phenomenon.

    56% LOL! 2006

  • And that kind of egocentrism is something that we do see in psychopaths.

    CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2005 2005

  • It is another way that American egocentrism dictates what is wrong and right versus objective interpretation of law and scripture.

    NC Sunday-Hunting Bill Faces Deadline 2009

  • It is another way that American egocentrism dictates what is wrong and right versus objective interpretation of law and scripture.

    NC Sunday-Hunting Bill Faces Deadline 2009

  • For what is normal is to wallow in the mud of individuality, egocentrism and personalism.

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

  • Unfortunately, many of those leaders lie down in the bed of egocentrism and resist “buying” dreams.

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

  • Religion is a road map not to some underlying codes hidden in the Bible but my underlying G-dly nature that sits beneath my ambition, selfishness, and egocentrism and strives to come out.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Rise of the Religious Charlatans Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2010

  • Unfortunately, many of those leaders lie down in the bed of egocentrism and resist “buying” dreams.

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

  • For what is normal is to wallow in the mud of individuality, egocentrism and personalism.

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

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