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Egoistical

adjective
1.
Limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs.  Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, self-centered, self-centred.





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"Egoistical" Quotes from Famous Books



... could not be enjoyed. It is always impersonal. It takes the individual outside and beyond his own affairs; it is an other-regarding feeling. Possession, achievement, and the like do not arouse appreciation, but rather an egoistical emotion. ...
— How to Teach • George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy
... generation know that frank and amusing book—one of the most brisk and manly autobiographies in our language? Of course it is garrulous, egoistical, self-complacent in a way. When a famous writer, at the close of a long career of varied activity, takes up his pen to tell us how he has lived, and how his books were written, and what he has loved, seen, suffered, and striven for—it is his business to be garrulous; we want him to talk ...
— Studies in Early Victorian Literature • Frederic Harrison


Words linked to "Egoistical" :   self-centered, selfish, self-absorbed, egocentric, self-centred, altruistic, self-involved, egoistic


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