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Definition of Egocentric
1. Adjective. Limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs.
Similar to: Self-absorbed, Self-involved
Also: Selfish
Antonyms: Altruistic
Derivative terms: Egoist, Egoist, Self-centeredness
2. Noun. A self-centered person with little regard for others.
Definition of Egocentric
1. Adjective. selfish, self-centered ¹
2. Adjective. Egotistical. ¹
3. Noun. A person who is egocentric. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Egocentric
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Egocentric
1. Marked by extreme concentration of attention upon oneself, i.e., self-centreed. Compare: allocentric. Synonym: egotropic. Origin: ego + G. Kentron, centre (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Egocentric
Literary usage of Egocentric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Good Man and the Good: An Introduction to Ethics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1918)
"Whether moral or non-moral, personal approval and disapproval are, in the first
place, egocentric when directed toward myself, as in remorse and in pride, ..."
2. Psycho-analysis: A Brief Account of the Freudian Theory by Barbara Low (1920)
"... Repressions—Necessity for Sublimation—The Neurotic. The Pleasure-Principle
and the Reality-Principle. The egocentric Impulses and the Social Impulses. ..."
3. The Direction of Human Evolution by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"B. ETHNOCENTRIC RATHER THAN egocentric A religion that looks merely to personal
rewards or punishments in the present or future is not one of the highest ..."
4. The First Chapter of Genesis as the Rock Foundation for Science and Religion by Albert Leverett Gridley (1913)
"CHAPTER X Dangers of egocentric Theology THE old testament as a whole is a solid
structure built upon Genesis I, its declaration, '' In the beginning God" ..."
5. Psycho-analysis; a Brief Account of the Freudian Theory by Barbara Low (1920)
"CHAPTER III REPRESSIONS The Pleasure-Principle and the Reality-Principle—The
egocentric Impulses and Development of the Social Impulses—Conflict between the ..."
6. The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Proceedings by Yusuf Pisan, SIGART. (2005)
"One wayfinder correctly induced egocentric POVs for several landmarks on the golf
... Without such robust knowledge egocentric routes induced from course ..."
7. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1918)
"Always, asocial, egocentric and pernicious tendencies must be repressed or denied
in order to retain another individual's transfer unless the object of the ..."
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