egoist
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egoist (ˈiːɡəʊɪst, ˈɛɡ-) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person who is preoccupied with his own interests; a selfish person |
| 2. | a conceited person; egotist |
| 3. | ethics a person who lives by the values of egoism |
| egoistic | |
| —adj | |
| egoistical | |
| —adj | |
| egoistically | |
| —adv | |
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Egoist
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
egoist
egoism and egoist were borrowed 1785 from Fr. egoisme, egoiste, coined 1755 as philosophical terms for "thinking subject." Egotism, egotist expressing "selfishness," are native coinages from 1714, first used by Joseph Addison; the -t- is perhaps by influence of nepotism, where it belongs. Addison credits
the term to "Port-Royalists" who used it in reference to obtrusive use of first person sing. pronoun in writing, hence "talking too much about oneself." Meaning "self-conceit, selfishness" is 1800. Related: Egoistic; egoistical.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
But nature always destructive and egoist smashing itself.
His public image as an adventurer and scientist was often at odds with his private persona as an egoist and risk-taker.
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