egocentric
IPA: igoʊsˈɛntrɪk
noun
- A person who is egocentric.
adjective
- Selfish, self-centered.
- Egotistical.
- 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.
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Examples of "egocentric" in Sentences
- Egocentric biases in availability and attribution.
- He has an egocentric and overpowering personality.
- In other words, their way of reasoning was egocentric.
- Exploitative oriented people are egocentric and conceited.
- He was condemned as egocentric, chauvinistic and technocratic.
- It has taken humans such a long time to go from "egocentric" local units to objectively standardized.
- How egocentric is it for these postmodernist writers to whip up these verbose tomes without the slightest concern about reader engagement?
- Although undoubtedly popular today, what Boyd calls egocentric social networks are just one among many possible ways to think at network arrangements.
- See, this is the kind of egocentric and arrogant hypocrisy I find truly offensive, and it is particularly striking in atheists and other anti-Christians.
- We've all seen this kind of egocentric "I'm Rightism" between individuals and how it can destroy relationships, fuel family feuds, and spawn conditions of resentment, bitterness and hatred.
- In my childhood development classes, I think the inability to see beyond yourself was referred to as egocentric and I think in some ways the increasing use of the internet to develop communities has contributed to that.
- Instead, the Grand Old Party failed to rise the occasion by selecting a man who can best be described as egocentric, morally bankrupt, dishonorable, and the true antithesis of what the party needs to be in these turbulent times.
- Eckhart Tolle in his book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose suggests that when we identify with something that is not our "authentic self" that we become trapped in a kind of egocentric or self-referential relationship to everything else.
- Eugene Robinson says he's "had it" with Rev. Wright and his "egocentric" response, and deconstructs the false claim, made four times yesterday by Wright at the National Press Club, that this was not an attack on him but an assault on the black church.