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egoistic

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e·go·ist  (g-st, g-)
n.
1. One devoted to one's own interests and advancement; an egocentric person.
2. An egotist.
3. An adherent of egoism.
ego·istic, ego·isti·cal adj.
ego·isti·cal·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.egoistic - limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs
egocentric, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred
selfish - concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman
altruistic, selfless - showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others
Translations
egoistic [ˌiːgəʊˈɪstɪk ˌɛgəʊˈɪstɪk] adj (= egotistic) → égoïste
egoistic [ˌɛgəʊˈɪstɪk] egoistical [ˌɛgəʊˈɪstɪk/əl] adj → egoista, egoistico/a
egoistic [ˌɛgəʊˈɪstɪk] egoistical [ˌɛgəʊˈɪstɪk/əl] adj → egoista, egoistico/a


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My love keeps growing more passionate and egoistic, while his is waning and waning, and that's why we're drifting apart.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The implied reproaches against her father--her father, who was lying there in a sort of living death--neutralized all her pity for griefs about tablecloths and china; and her anger on her father's account was heightened by some egoistic resentment at Tom's silent concurrence with her mother in shutting her out from the common calamity.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
His experience was of that pitiable kind which shrinks from pity, and fears most of all that it should be known: it was that proud narrow sensitiveness which has not mass enough to spare for transformation into sympathy, and quivers thread-like in small currents of self-preoccupation or at best of an egoistic scrupulosity.
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