egoisticaladj.
/iːɡəʊˈɪstɪkəl//ɛɡəʊˈɪstɪkəl/ = egoistic adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [adjective] > egotistic
egotistical1825
egoistical1836
egoistic1841
egotistic1859
egomaniac1890
solipsistic1894
solipsist1936
1836 H. Taylor Statesman xxxi. 235 There is a dignity in the desire to be right..which will not fail to supersede what is egoistical and frivolous in a man's personal feelings in society.
1842 Sir W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. II. 817/1 If the Idea be regarded as a mode of the human mind itself, we have a scheme of Egoistical Idealism.
1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. I. 94 He had learned to despise the tinsel splendours of rank and fortune, without being misanthropical or egoistical.
Derivatives
egoˈistically adv. from an egoistical point of view.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [adverb] > egotistically
egotistically1812
egoistically1879
solipsistically1898
solipsistically1941
egocentrically1969
1879 H. Spencer Data of Ethics xii. 207 Each profits egoistically from the growth of an altruism.
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