egotistn.
/ˈiːɡətɪst//ˈɛɡətɪst/ One who makes too frequent use of the pronoun I; one who thinks or talks too much of himself; a selfish person. Also attributive.
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the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > conceit > [noun] > conceited person
coxcomb1567
snipper-snappera1593
conceited1596
feather-cock1612
turkey-cocka1616
cockcomb1684
egotist1715
fop1755
fat1832
swell-head1845
swelled head1862
big-head1863
swollen head1898
Jack Strop1910
trombenik1922
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [noun] > egotism > egotist
egotist1715
meist1737
egoist1794
automaniac1853
egomaniac1890
egocentrica1963
1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 562. ¶4 The most eminent Egotist..was Montagne, the author of the..Essays.
1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. Pref. 4 A man, that acknowledges favours may be allowed to be an egotist.
1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 121 As much an egotist as Montaigne; but not so agreeably so.
1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 452 Such is, in the egotist and vulgar meaning of the phrase, the genius of the ambitious.
1853 F. W. Robertson Lect. (ed 2) 240 The egotist is ever speaking and thinking of that which belongs to himself alone.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth III. vi. 170 The sailors were preparing to desert the sinking ship in the little boat..; then there was a rush of egotists; and thirty souls crowded into it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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