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View synonyms for egoism
egoism
/ ˈiːɡəʊˌɪzəm; ˈɛɡ- /
noun
- concern for one's own interests and welfare
- ethics the theory that the pursuit of one's own welfare is the highest good Compare altruism
- self-centredness; egotism
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Other Words From
- anti·ego·ism noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of egoism1
First recorded in 1775–85; from French égoïsme, from New Latin egoismus, equivalent to ego ego ( def ) + -ismus -ism ( def )
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Synonym Study
See egotism.
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Example Sentences
He spoke continually of himself, indeed, but still in enigmas; a veiled prophet of egoism.
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What delicate comprehension of everything, what a loving heart, what a complete absence of egoism!
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He has attained to annihilating himself, his hateful ego; but I too; it's not from egoism, I pray not.
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My sufferings, my repugnance, my feelings, all my egoism—for I know that I am an egoist—ought to be sacrificed to the family.
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And when, with cynical egoism, they have collected their unnumbered dollars, what do they do with them?
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