egocentric

English

Etymology

ego +‎ -centric

Adjective

egocentric (comparative more egocentric, superlative most egocentric)

1. selfish, self-centered
2. Egotistical.
3. Relating to spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on one's own location within the environment (as when giving the direction as "right" rather than "north"); opposed to allocentric.

Synonyms

• (self-centered): self-minded

Translations

egotistical

• Catalan: egocèntric (ca) m, egocèntrica (ca) f
• Dutch: egocentrisch (nl)
• Finnish: itsekeskeinen (fi)
• French: égocentrique (fr)
• Galician: egocéntrico (gl) m, egocéntrica f
• German: egozentrisch (de)
• Hebrew: אגוצנטרי (he)
• Irish: féinlárnach
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• Italian: egocentrico (it) m, egocentrica (it) f
• Polish: egocentryczny (pl)
• Portuguese: egocêntrico (pt) m, egocêntrica (pt) f
• Russian: эгоцентри́чный (ru) (egocentríčnyj)
• Spanish: egocéntrico m, egocéntrica (es) f
• Swedish: egocentrisk (sv)
• Turkish: benci (tr), benmerkezcil

Noun

egocentric (plural egocentrics)

1. A person who is egocentric.

Translations

person who is egocentric

• Bulgarian: егоцентри́к m (egocentrík)
• Galician: egocéntrico (gl)
• German: Egozentriker m
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• Polish: egocentryk (pl) m, egocentryczka f
• Portuguese: egocêntrico (pt) m

Anagrams

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