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/ˈiːɡəʊˌɪst/
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NOUN
- a self-centered person with little regard for others
- a conceited and self-centered person
How To Use egoist In A Sentence
- The visible developments of their hidden existence do seem, in their results, like egotism; but who shall dare to say that the man who has abnegated self to give pleasure, instruction, or grandeur to his epoch, is an egoist? Modeste Mignon
- Everything we experience is normally experienced from an egoistic or narcissistic point of view.
- The egoist might now appeal to the difference between awareness and attentive attentiveness.
- On the basis of this mutual agreement of the two parties, according to which each of them defends only his claims and his cause, renouncing all personal or egoistic considerations, the conflict is fought with unattenuated sharpness, following its own intrinsic logic, and being neither intensified nor moderated by subjective factors. Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations
- No one would hesitate to call egoistic the doctrine of Aristippus, the A Handbook of Ethical Theory
- For the psychological egoist, that is not even a possibility. The History of Utilitarianism
- The latter symbolizes that egoistic force of maya (the everyday world) which deludes individuals and keeps them from knowing their innate nature as god.
- Then you all listened to the very corporate plutocracy tell you that Nader was an "egoist" and that everything was his fault. The Obama-Clinton Cabinet? We Voted for CHANGE, Not Recycling
- Ragnar Redbeard, on the other hand, is another kind of egoist entirely, a Fascist, misogynistic, and sacrilegious bore who desires to impress that he Knows All, and anyone daring to disagree with his interpretation of Man is but mere dirt beneath his steel-toed boots. Essays
- Since men are rational and egoistic, endowed with the right of property, the composition of output should be determined by consumer sovereignty.