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egocentric, a.|ɛgəʊˈsɛntrɪk|
[f. ego + centre n., after geocentric, heliocentric.]
Centred in the ego; in vague or popular use: self-centred, egoistic.
1900in Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 1897–8 831 An earlier ethnocentric system born of the primeval egocentric cosmos of inchoate thinking. 1901J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 194/2 For the ego-centric point of view is substituted the homocentric. 1919in B. H. Streeter Spirit iii. 97 The instincts, the radical fault in most of which is their selfish and egocentric character. 192619th Cent. July 83 The girl of to-day absorbs a freedom-loving and egocentric conception of life. 1943H. Read Education through Art v. 140 When an attempt is made, not merely to express egocentric sensation..but also to represent an external object as it presents itself to the sensations of the artist..then some control is exercised by other than tactual and somatic sensations. 1953R. Niebuhr Christian Realism & Political Problems (1954) i. 22 It might be noted that, without a sense of the universality of an egocentric corruption, the passion for a universal humanity quickly degenerates. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia xii. 70 The age at which a child..turns from an autistic, egocentric individual, to a societal, ethnocentric being.
b. Philos. egocentric predicament, the supposed impossibility of knowing anything outside one's own mind.
1910R. B. Perry in Jrnl. Philos. VII. 5 (title) The Ego-Centric Predicament. Ibid., I shall seek to discover whether a certain circumstance, which has never been disputed, does or does not constitute evidence for a theory that has been much disputed. The circumstance I shall call the ego-centric predicament, and the theory, ontological idealism. 1917A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God x. 192 This is what an American Realist, in a phrase worthy of Kant, in its full-flavoured technicality, has dubbed ‘the ego-centric predicament’. The Ego is..the pre-supposition of all its knowledge.
Also as n., one who is self-centred. So ˌegocenˈtricity, egoˈcentrism, the state or quality of being egocentric; self-centredness; egoˈcentrically adv.
1903Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. July–Oct. 100 Ziehen limits the hysterical constitution to emotional instability, egocentricity, craving for attention. 1918E. Jones Psycho-analysis (ed. 2) 632 Its ruthless and absolute egocentricity. 1926M. Warden tr. Piaget's Lang. & Thought of Child v. 238 All ego-centrism is designed by its structure to stand half-way between autistic thought which is ‘undirected’..and ‘directed’ intelligence. Ego-centrism is therefore obedient to the self's good pleasure and not to the dictates of impersonal logic. 1928Brit. Weekly 22 Mar. 593/2 In this book the first personal pronoun occurs with a frequent and monotonous ego⁓centricity. 1932D. H. Lawrence Last Poems 179 The hordes of the ego-centric, the robots. 1934Mind XLIII. 87 Egocentrism, in so far as it means confusion of the ego and the external world, and egocentrism in so far as it means lack of co-operation, constitutes one and the same phenomenon. 1943H. Read Education through Art viii. 276 Then by stages the player grows out of his egocentrism, observes other players, gradually begins to co-operate with others, and finally in conjunction with a group arrives at a reciprocal agreement embodying definite rules. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Oct. 637/1 The..complete ruthlessness and egocentricity of the very young female person. a1963L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) iii. 86 Gemini is the patron not only of intellectuals but of egocentrics. 1969Daily Tel. 5 May 19/2 They hang on every word of the actorly actor, just as the actors themselves are egocentrically absorbed by anything but the truth. 1970Ibid. 13 Mar. 17 Behind their sham chivalry, I contend, lurk some nasty tendencies to sadism, egocentricity, rebellion and neurosis. 1981Word 1980 XXXI. 122 Parametric structuring is applied to Tolkien's representation of the specific effects of uncontrolled and egocentrically wielded power. |