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Meanings of egocentric in English

Portuguese
egocêntrico
Catalan
egoista

Limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs.

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      egocèntric

      A self-centered person with little regard for others.

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            Examples for "egoist"
            Examples for "egoist"
            1
            So does the egoist selfishly dig about and fertilize the number One.
            A Handbook of Ethical Theory
            2
            The egoist, the intellectual, gives but little of himself and asks much.
            The Financier: A Novel
            3
            I said, I have been a blatant egoist all the afternoon, Judith.
            The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
            4
            But he is a man, he is an egoist and a liar.
            Jean-Christophe Journey's End
            5
            The egoist's pleasure is, on the other hand, very largely an illusion.
            Modern French Philosophy: a Study of the Development Since Comte
            Usage of egocentric in English
            1
            It has also turned out a fair number of self-centered, egocentric horrors.
            The K-Factor
            2
            You both look like a right pair of egocentric tools, the person added.
            News.com.au
            3
            Notwithstanding her known social characteristics, there were very few egocentric or subjective reactions.
            Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forens...
            4
            She was the most egocentric human being he had ever met.
            Fine things
            5
            There is room for controversial, for outrageous, but not for egocentric.
            Chosen: a novel
            6
            Not only is he an egocentric megalomaniac, he is also a lecherous weirdo.
            The Irish Times
            7
            The egocentric distance to stimuli is a powerful determinant of defensive behavior in animals.
            Pubmed
            8
            Several theories of psychopathy link it to an egocentric mode of perceiving the world.
            Pubmed
            9
            Eccentric, some might even say egocentric, Boy George is up there with the greats.
            The Irish Times
            10
            He found an extraordinary number of emotionally toned, egocentric relations.
            The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
            11
            Writers are as egocentric as they are self-loathing, after all.
            Reuters
            12
            A Girlboss is a spoiled, egocentric vacuum with a tiny bottom and no empathy.
            The Guardian
            13
            How everyone laughed at these egocentric flights of pop fancy.
            The Irish Times
            14
            This notion strikes me as particularly prevalent in this egocentric era of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland.
            The Irish Times
            15
            Like all egocentric reporters he was probably already working on his Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech.
            Act of treason
            16
            That was before she went to school and learned what egocentric sadists they really were.
            Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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            Portuguese
            egocêntrico
            Egocentric through the time