Concern for your own interests and welfare.
Synonyms
Examples for "egoism"
Examples for "egoism"
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It was an ideal style to promote a policy of 'sacred egoism'.
2
For us the future means egoism; further than that we cannot see.
3
He hated them all; he felt himself crushed by this universal egoism.
4
The magnificent egoism of mankind in love struck her as distinctly diverting.
5
The girl found his incredible egoism at once amusing and extremely exasperating.
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A characteristic of pathological liars is undoubtedly a deep-set egocentrism, as Risch states.
2
Meanwhile, the egocentrism gene now lying dormant is sure to spring back to life.
3
It was not a dream that needed interpretation, not a misty plunge into oneiromancy or egocentrism.
4
Individuals high in primary psychopathy exhibited cognitive egocentrism, whereas individuals low in primary psychopathy did not.
5
Probably the force which caused this is egocentrism.
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Working in mutual self-interest the world community would have achieved Sustainable Growth.
2
Against our nature, self-interest has been given too high a moral priority.
3
The WTO talks, it said, have been driven by power and self-interest.
4
Global alliances can't be constructed on the basis of narrow national self-interest.
5
Why are our MPs putting blatant self-interest ahead of the Brexit vote?
1
Pessimism, cynicism, and self-centeredness can take hold as the chances of marrying narrow.
2
Emphasize his egotism and self-centeredness as they start off for the golf links.
3
But with the self-centeredness of the body-obsessed, the scale in my mind never sleeps.
4
He is pulled out of self-centeredness, while shouting for another.
5
Our carelessness, our self-centeredness, had wrecked those chocolates, made one fine mess of them all.
1
We find self-concern and some concern for others, but not respect.
2
From her present bearing I arrived at some gauge of her self-concern, her self-respect.
3
Knowledge is possible when you can transcend self-concern.
4
Of self-concern will tarnish my discerning need
5
But suddenly he was preoccupied with self-concern.
6
Yet, physical self-concern was buried under a bitterness that engulfed him like the stifling vapor of a boiling pit.
7
No wonder Rene's scowling expression changed to one of abject self-concern when the priest's name was suddenly connected with his mood.
8
It would not necessarily mean the end of unspoken emotions or self-concern; it might not even be the end of social embarrassment.
9
Was not his mind elevated a thousand degrees beyond sense, carnal reasons, fleshly love, self-concerns, and the desires of embracing temporal things?