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adjective

Self-centred, Self-centered adj.

Centered in itself, or in one's self. "There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved."

Interested solely or primiarily in oneself, or one's own welfare; disinclined to consider the interests of others; selfish; egotistical.

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Etymology of 'Self-centered'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Self-centered" Quotes from Famous Books

... Veronese conquests. Strife and covetousness reign from the Alps to the Ionian Sea. But it is a strife of living energies, the covetousness of impassioned and puissant units. Italy as a whole is almost invisible to the student by reason of the many-sided, combative, self-centered crowd of numberless Italian communities. Proximity foments hatred and stimulates hostility. Fiesole looks down and threatens Florence. Florence returns frown for frown, and does not rest till she has made her neighbor of the hills a slave. Perugia and Assissi turn the Umbrian plain into a wilderness ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds

... Puritanism in relation to American art, Mr. Gutzen Burglum said: "Puritanism has made us self-centered and hypocritical for so long, that sincerity and reverence for what is natural in our impulses have been fairly bred out of us, with the result that there can be neither truth nor ...

— Anarchism and Other Essays • Emma Goldman

... that!" Belle stormed. She leaped to her feet, her eyes shooting sparks. "All my fault! Why, you self-centered, egotistical, domineering jerk, I ...

— The Galaxy Primes • Edward Elmer Smith

... little inclination of the head, Grace turned and walked down the hall to her own room, leaving the self-centered Kathleen with an angry color in her thin face and the unpleasant knowledge that though she might be in college, ...

— Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower