Egotism
['egətɪz(ə)m;'iː-] or ['ɛɡətɪzəm]
Definition
(n.) The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism.
Inputed by Barnard
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Conceit, vanity, BUMPTIOUSNESS, self-conceit, self-esteem, self-praise, self-commendation.
Inputed by Cole
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Conceit, vanity, selfassertion, self-conceit, self-praise, self-exaltation,conceitedness
ANT:considerateness, deference, self-abnegation
Typed by Chloe
Examples
- Because it is your egotism makes you miserable. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Yet, unless we balance it, this insistence upon his vanity, egotism, self-deception, and hot desire does not complete the justice of the case. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Muck their egotism and their selfishness and their selfishness and their egotism and their conceit and their treachery. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- One great egotism had been swept aside--only to reveal a crowd of meaner egotists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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