Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the personality trait that causes one to attempt to get personal recognition for oneself (especially by unacceptable means).
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- noun The constant following of one's
egotistical desires to an extreme.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun concern for your own interests and welfare
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Examples
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Preoperational egocentrism is what Piaget called it.
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I'm not sure that 'egocentrism' is necessarily the right way to categorize the phenomenon.
56% LOL! 2006
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And that kind of egocentrism is something that we do see in psychopaths.
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It is another way that American egocentrism dictates what is wrong and right versus objective interpretation of law and scripture.
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It is another way that American egocentrism dictates what is wrong and right versus objective interpretation of law and scripture.
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For what is normal is to wallow in the mud of individuality, egocentrism and personalism.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Unfortunately, many of those leaders lie down in the bed of egocentrism and resist “buying” dreams.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Religion is a road map not to some underlying codes hidden in the Bible but my underlying G-dly nature that sits beneath my ambition, selfishness, and egocentrism and strives to come out.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Rise of the Religious Charlatans Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2010
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Unfortunately, many of those leaders lie down in the bed of egocentrism and resist “buying” dreams.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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For what is normal is to wallow in the mud of individuality, egocentrism and personalism.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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