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egocentric

/ee-goh-sen-trik, eg-oh-/US // ˌi goʊˈsɛn trɪk, ˌɛg oʊ- //UK // (ˌiːɡəʊˈsɛntrɪk, ˌɛɡ-) //

以自我为中心,以自我为中心的,自我中心的,自我中心

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things: an egocentric philosophy that ignores social causes.
    • : having little or no regard for interests, beliefs, or attitudes other than one's own; self-centered: an egocentric person; egocentric demands upon the time and patience of others.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an egocentric person.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.thinking very highly of oneself

Examples

  • A celebrity whose egocentric and grandiloquent pronouncements reveal a potentially dangerous person in serious need of help?

  • Here again why not follow the egocentric plan of starting with what the student knows?

  • I do not remember any particular case, but I always took him and considered him as an egocentric person.

  • Many moral philosophers, those of the Kantian school without exception, labour under the delusion of this same, egocentric view.

  • Taoism was out of the question as a substitute, because of its anarchistic and egocentric character.

  • His egotism, or egocentric method, is the fundamental fact about his work.