noun
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a person who is preoccupied with his own interests; a selfish person
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a conceited person; egotist
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ethics a person who lives by the values of egoism
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Origin of egoist
From the French word égoïste, dating back to 1775–85. See ego, -ist
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Having killed off the kernel of sweetness at the heart of the young man who’d written “Goodbye, Columbus,” he was free to explore the writer not just as egoist, but as stag-on-the-make, as bachelor-king.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2021
But she is also an insufferable egoist, a masochistic martyr and, when it comes right down to it, a pragmatist who is less innocent of worldly dealings than she lets on.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2015
The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.
From Forbes ● Sep. 22, 2014
England egoist" who was "snuffed out by a French cook.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2010
What an egoist you are, my dear fellow!
From The Travelling Companions a Story in Scenes by F. Anstey
This demand gives the lie to a common misconception of liberalism, namely, that it is an ethic of insouciant self-indulgence, a politics for blithe egoists.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
Finally, the game must be the undisputed king, and all the egoists and agitators would do well to fall in line.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
“Austria cannot afford any egoists right now,” he said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
The second is the assumption that human behaviour – of employees, customers, managers and so on – is best understood as if we are all rational egoists.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2018
Admit, then, that this manner of understanding his interest is even ridiculously absurd, and that heroes are very unskilful and inconsistent egoists.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
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