egotism

English

Etymology

From Latin ego (“I”) + -t- (perhaps modelled on dogmatism, despotism, idiotism) + -ism.

Pronunciation

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Noun

egotism (usually uncountable, plural egotisms)

1. A tendency to talk excessively about oneself.
2. A belief that one is superior to or more important than others.
3. (countable) The result or product of being egoistic.
4. (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egoism (belief that behavior should be directed towards one's self-interest).

Synonyms

• pride, vanity, conceit, narcissism
• egocentrism, egoism

Derived terms

• unegotism
• wegotism

Related terms

• alter-egotism
• egotist
• egotistic
• egotistical

Translations

preoccupation with oneself

• Bengali: অহংকার (bn) (ohoṅkar), নফসানিয়াত (bn) (nophśaniẏat)
• Bulgarian: самоизтъкване (bg) n (samoiztǎkvane)
• Czech: sobectví n
• Dutch: egotisme (nl), egocentrisme (nl)
• French: égotisme (fr) m
• German: Egoismus (de) m, Egotismus (de) m
• Greek: εγωτισμός (el) (egotismós)
• Irish: féinchúis f, féinspéis f
• Japanese: 自惚 (ja), 己惚 (うぬぼれ, unubore)
• Malayalam: അഹംഭാവം (ml) (ahambhāvaṁ)
• Norwegian: egoist
• Romanian: egoism (ro) n
• Sanskrit: अहंकार (sa) m (ahaṃkāra)

belief that one is superior

• Bulgarian: егоцентричност n (egocentričnost)
• Czech: ješitnost (cs) f
• Dutch: hooghartigheid (nl), eigenwaan (nl)
• Greek: εγωτισμός (el) (egotismós)
• Polish: egotyzm (pl) m

See also

• solipsism

Further reading

• “egotism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “egotism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French égotisme.

Noun

egotism n (uncountable)

1. egotism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	egotism	egotismul
genitive-dative	egotism	egotismului
vocative	egotismule