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Meanings of egoistic in English

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egocêntrico
Catalan
egoista

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

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      Usage of egoistic in English
      1
      The doctrine of the English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, is as unequivocally egoistic.
      A Handbook of Ethical Theory
      2
      Rather, it is Wilde the egoistic,-æstheticphilosopher, and Wilde the imaginative artist.
      The Art of Letters
      3
      He gets out of training, and concentrates upon egoistic or erotic broodings.
      A Modern Utopia
      4
      It gives joy and takes away weird pressure from the egoistic mind.
      Climbing Magazine
      5
      There is nothing we are more egoistic about-noteven children-thanabout cats.
      The Pleasures of Ignorance
      6
      He felt an egoistic aversion to the joyless sons of man.
      The Goose Man
      7
      Such an egoistic conception is quite foreign to our longitudinal antipodes.
      The Soul of the Far East
      8
      Rhoda was the delicate product of a highly cultivated civilization, egoistic, narrow-viewed, self-centered.
      The Heart of the Desert / Kut-Le of the Desert
      9
      One cannot conceive of the grandly egoistic poet saying this.
      The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poe...
      10
      The egoistic tendencies are only a part of human nature.
      Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy
      11
      But he himself was more egoistic than the whole universe.
      Jean-Christophe, Volume I
      12
      All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.
      Sadhana : the realisation of life
      13
      I have cited some utterances which sound egoistic, and such citations might be multiplied.
      A Handbook of Ethical Theory
      14
      By such devices we seek to bring infinite existence within our finite egoistic grasp.
      Adventures in Contentment
      15
      She was not greedy, nor patriotic, neither vain nor humble, neither egoistic nor unselfish.
      The Dark Forest
      16
      Given an egoistic consciousness, how can action which has regard for others take place?
      Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ed...
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      Portuguese
      egocêntrico
      Catalan
      egoista
      Egoistic through the time
      Egoistic across language varieties
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