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† ˈegomism Obs. rare.
[a. Fr. égomisme: see ego and -ism. The inserted m Littré conjectures to be derived from the pronoun me. More probably the word was a parody of some older term, such as atomisme.]
The belief of one who considers himself the only being in existence.
[1727Ramsay Disc. sur la Mythol. 90 Une espèce de Pyrrhonisme nommé l'Egomisme, ou chacun se croit le seul être existent.] c1730A. Baxter Eng. Nat. Soul (1745) XI. 21 That kind of Scepticism called Egomism. 1856W. H. Thompson in A. Butler Hist. Anc. Philos. I. 80 note, It [egoism] is not more barbarous than its homonym ‘egotism’, and much less so than ‘egomism’, which occurs in ‘Baxter On the Soul’, where it is attributed to certain Cartesians. |