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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It even links to modern artistic conventions, since Dürer — an ambitious egoist who monogrammed almost everything he made — was the first artist to use media as a branding tool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2016
The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.
From Forbes ● Sep. 22, 2014
While Mr. Thomas’s Timon thinks nothing of hurling his own excrement at one of his unwanted supplicants, beneath the repellent exterior can still be glimpsed the bruised egoist of the first acts.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2011
England egoist" who was "snuffed out by a French cook.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2010
He was as intense an egoist as Rousseau, whose work he had probably never read, and would not have appreciated if he had read.
From The Life of George Borrow by Clement K. Shorter
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
It is arduous even pretending to be interested in self-absorbed egoists.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2018
We have already touched upon this in connection with Stirner's union of egoists.
From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Ernst Viktor Zenker
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