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UK
/ˌiːɡəʊsˈɛntɹɪk/
]
[ US /ˌiɡoʊˈsɛntɹɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌiɡoʊˈsɛntɹɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs
NOUN
- a self-centered person with little regard for others
How To Use egocentric In A Sentence
- Sociopaths are very egocentric individuals that lack a sense of personal responsibility and morality.
- He has been shown to be dishonest, calculating, egocentric, manipulative and a control freak.
- Still, the egocentric child typically lacks any appreciation or knowledge of the game from a social point of view.
- As it is, Martin is a dreadful bore - arrogant, self-important and so egocentric it's a wonder he had time to obsess about anyone other than himself.
- For instance, drug-using mothers have been characterized as egocentric with a narcissistic orientation toward their children.
- She can tell that he is still the shallow, egocentric man she once worked for.
- Maybe that's an egocentric position, but I'm not one of those community above everything individuals - I also care about myself.
- Are we all egocentric, narcissistic online exhibitionists who believe our lives are so important that they deserve to be publicised?
- Taking yourself out of the picture helps shift you away from an egocentric perspective and allows the other images in the dream to come forward.
- He was a man of undoubted genius, but bad-tempered, egocentric, and impossible to live with.