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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
Karen Armstrong

Meaning of "egotism" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EGOTISM

From Latin ego I + -ism.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EGOTISM

egotism  [ˈiːɡəˌtɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EGOTISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Egotism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EGOTISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Egotism

Egotism is the drive to maintain and enhance favorable views of oneself, and generally features an inflated opinion of one's personal features and importance. It often includes intellectual, physical, social and other over estimations. The egotist has an overwhelming sense of the centrality of the 'Me', that is to say of their personal qualities. Egotism means placing oneself at the core of one's world with no concern for others, including those loved or considered as "close," in any other terms except those set by the egotist.

Definition of egotism in the English dictionary

The definition of egotism in the dictionary is an inflated sense of self-importance or superiority; self-centredness. Other definition of egotism is excessive reference to oneself.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EGOTISM


acrobatism
ˈækrəbəˌtɪzəm
astigmatism
əˈstɪɡməˌtɪzəm
automatism
ɔːˈtɒməˌtɪzəm
conservatism
kənˈsɜːvəˌtɪzəm
despotism
ˈdɛspəˌtɪzəm
ergotism
ˈɜːɡəˌtɪzəm
erotism
ˈɛrəˌtɪzəm
exotism
ˈɛɡzəˌtɪzəm
hypnotism
ˈhɪpnəˌtɪzəm
metasomatism
ˌmɛtəˈsəʊməˌtɪzəm
nepotism
ˈnɛpəˌtɪzəm
patriotism
ˈpætrɪəˌtɪzəm
pragmatism
ˈpræɡməˌtɪzəm
prelatism
ˈprɛləˌtɪzəm
quietism
ˈkwaɪəˌtɪzəm
rheumatism
ˈruːməˌtɪzəm
sabbatism
ˈsæbəˌtɪzəm
stigmatism
ˈstɪɡməˌtɪzəm
Suprematism
sʊˈprɛməˌtɪzəm
traumatism
ˈtrɔːməˌtɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EGOTISM

egocentrism
egoism
egoist
egoistic
egoistical
egoistically
egoity
egoless
Egoli
egomania
egomaniac
egomaniacal
egomaniacally
egosurf
egotheism
egotist
egotistic
egotistical
egotistically
egotize

WORDS THAT END LIKE EGOTISM

acrotism
antinepotism
autism
autoerotism
compatriotism
dicrotism
helotism
homoerotism
Huguenotism
narcotism
peyotism
photism
polycrotism
polyglotism
quixotism
robotism
Scotism
superpatriotism
sybotism
tricrotism
zealotism

Synonyms and antonyms of egotism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EGOTISM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «egotism» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of egotism

Translation of «egotism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EGOTISM

Find out the translation of egotism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of egotism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «egotism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自私
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

egoísmo
570 millions of speakers

English

egotism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अहंकार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأنانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эгоизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

egoísmo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অস্মিতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

égotisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Egotisme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Egoismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

利己主義
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이기주의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Egotisme
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự đại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தன்முனைப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अहंकार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

egotizm
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

egotismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

egotyzm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

егоїзм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

egotism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εγωισμός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

selfsug
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

egotism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

egoisme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of egotism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EGOTISM»

The term «egotism» is regularly used and occupies the 100.767 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EGOTISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about egotism

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10 QUOTES WITH «EGOTISM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word egotism.
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Karen Armstrong
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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Arnold Bennett
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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John Edwards
I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want.
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Erich Fromm
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
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Harold S. Geneen
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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Alma Gluck
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
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Graham Greene
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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Germaine Greer
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
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Sydney J. Harris
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EGOTISM»

Discover the use of egotism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to egotism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Curse of the Self : Self-Awareness, Egotism, and the ...
In this volume, Mark Leary explores the personal and social problems that are created by the capacity for self-reflection, and by drawing upon psychology and other behavioral sciences, offers insights into how these problems can be ...
Mark R. Leary Professor of Psychology Duke University, 2004
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Beyond egotism: the fiction of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, ...
Compares the way three modern novelists, Joyce, Woolf, and Lawrence treat basic human relationships and suggests that all three develop the theme of the value of human interdependence
Robert Kiely, 1980
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In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing
Throughout this important 1991 study of American Romanticism Professor Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar and less familiar texts.
Joel Porte, 1991
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Memoirs of Egotism
Defining. Service. Aptitudes. Every occupation — whether it is engineering, medicine, law, management or any other — needs certain defined aptitudes. The work you are most likely to enjoy and be successful in, is the work that makes use of ...
Stendhal, 1975
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Aversive Interpersonal Behaviors
FEATURES OF EGOTISTICAL BEHAVIOR As we use the term, egotism is characterized by an exaggerated estimate of one's intellect, ability, importance, appearance, wit, or other valued personal characteristics. Egotistical behavior is  ...
Robin M. Kowalski, 1997
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Threatened Egotism, Low Self-control, Empathy, and Housing ...
The present study also analyzed housing placement at two levels: separate and integrative.
Bianca Cota, 2009
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The new Adam and Eve. Egotism. The Christmas banquet. ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne. er time, he stopped a close-fisted old fellow, of great wealth, but who skulked about the city in the guise of a scarecrow, with a patched blue surtout, brown hat, and mouldy boots, scraping pence together, and picking up ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1854
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The new Adam and Eve. Egotism; or, The bosom serpent. The ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne. tion with one of Tom Moore's wine-glasses and Circe's magic bowl. These were symbols of luxury and riot; but near them stood the cup whence Socrates drank his hemlock; and that which Sir Philip Sydney put from his ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1900
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Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I ...
Our fathers were only acquainted with egotism. Egotism is a passionate and exaggerated love of self, which leads a man to connect everything with his own person, and to prefer himself to everything in the world. Individualism is a mature and ...
Alexis De Tocqueville, 2004
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Learned Helplessness: A Theory for the Age of Personal Control
However, we think the egotism hypothesis has a problem explaining therapy effects. It implies that subjects should mightily resist such efforts. This interpretation follows from the hypothesis that the "helplessness" of the individual is motivated.
Christopher Peterson, Martin E. P. Seligman, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EGOTISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term egotism is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Self/less' review: This Ryan Reynolds sci-fi dud is sense/less
After all, he was only selected for the procedure in the first place because the world still needs his genius, and that kind of egotism doesn't go ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
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The staff of The Spectator are straight out of a painting by Norman …
Amid the circus of egotism and self-absorption that is today's culture, it was nice to meet proper and civilised British gentlemen and ladies, and ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Salam-bast: Dark comedy skewers assumptions about Muslim life in …
... Sunny in Philadelphia” in their occasionally over-the-top egotism. But these aren't foibles typically associated with particular races or creeds, ... «Brooklyn Daily, Jul 15»
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'Seven Deadly Sins' At Seven Museums In CT, NY
Depictions of egotism from 1498 to the present show recurring themes of peacock motifs and mirror-gazing women. Gabriel Schachinger's ... «CTNow, Jul 15»
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Editorial: No matter what happens, there is no easy way out of Greek …
The previous finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, who had driven them to fury by his arrogance and egotism, had been ditched and the ministers ... «The Press, Jul 15»
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The Ashes, Sky Sport / Channel 5
This equates, in sport as in politics, to unhealthy levels of mutually reinforcing egotism. The sound of alpha egos being pampered - think a cross ... «The Arts Desk, Jul 15»
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A Conduct So Dishonourable
The lawmakers must be reminded that political representation goes beyond egotism of individuals or primitive accumulation of wealth through ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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More than the sum of your parts
Egotism – Self-absorption gets some hefty attention these days. Yes, there are numerous self-help books out there that attempt to set us on the ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
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Gig refunds: should fans have got their money back after these …
... such as at Glastonbury last month, there are even those who likewise accuse the star of egotism for not being entertaining enough. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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A Number, Young Vic, review: 'a virtuoso intensity'
But subsequent scenes reveal a much uglier account of the truth that probes deeply into the egotism of parenthood and the supremely selfish ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

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