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
Other Word Forms
- antiegoist noun
- egoistic adjective
- egoistically adverb
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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The egoist in you will find it hard to resist bragging about the proliferation of butterflies that will flock to the drought-tolerant De La Mina.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2022
Howard Jacobson’s novella “Pussy,” to be published in Britain in April, is a fairy tale about an egoist from a golden city who falls into a leadership position.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2017
The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.
From Forbes • Sep. 22, 2014
It was, he said, "an utter egoist preoccupied solely with its own appearance".
From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2012
Individualist, egoist, anarchist, his only thought was letters.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles
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