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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Etymology
Origin of egoist
From the French word égoïste, dating back to 1775–85. See ego, -ist
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Example Sentences
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Not many could have been disappointed at the announcement: The Egoist, by its end, boasted a print run of just four hundred, and a mere forty-five subscribers.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2019
The essay appeared in the September and December, 1919, issues of The Egoist, the London-based little magazine for which Eliot had been serving as an assistant editor since June, 1917.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2019
The Egoist carried a subtitle, “An Individualist Review”; in its pages, Eliot seeks to put individualism in its place.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2019
Owner of the Egoist Press, publisher of The Egoist, Harriet Weaver was a shy little wisp of a woman, terrified by the dramatic manners of the literary great she patronized.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Possession," said the Egoist, "without obligation to the object possessed, approaches felicity."
From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.
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