Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A conceited, boastful person.
- noun A selfish, self-centered person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is characterized by egotism, in either sense of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who talks excessively about himself
- noun A person who believes in his own importance or superiority.
- noun An
egoist .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a conceited and self-centered person
Etymologies
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Examples
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In his secret heart the egotist is a self-despiser.
The Glory of the Trenches Coningsby Dawson 1921
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I suppose that the egotist is the man who regards the world as a setting for himself, as opposed to the man who realizes that he is
From a College Window Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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Wright rhymes "exist" with "egotist" - the very quality of human existence creates an ego that leads us to disbelieve our own being and that of those around us.
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It's not my fault he's too cheap to fund a proper office, but his snide, arrogant denials show exactly what kind of egotist he is.
Archive 2004-06-01 2004
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The error was caused by my reliance on a dictionary which gave such misleading definitions of these two words that "egotist" seemed closer to the meaning I intended (Webster's Daily Use Dictionary, 1933).
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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The error is semantic: the use of the word "egotist" in Roark's courtroom speech, while actually the word should have been "egoist."
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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He has been described as an "egotist," but I challenge the description.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Those essays, as happens with epoch-marking books, were themselves a life, the power which [84] makes them what they are having been accumulated in them imperceptibly by a thousand repeated modifications, like character in a person: at the moment when Gaston presented himself, to go along with the great "egotist" for a season, that life had just begun.
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866
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The woman she knows how to talk and she's so down to earth, I mean, when you find someone successful in his/her life you think that they are very "egotist" and all that, but that woman was so down to earth and she was treating the group in a very polite, open minded and educated way!
Qwaider Planet 2009
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His kind of egotist wouldn't, not on such a topic. "
There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972
oroboros commented on the word egotist
Daffynition: someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
January 6, 2007