me-ismn.
/ˈmiːɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈmiˌɪzəm/ 1. Usually depreciative. A personal religion or creed, frequently incorporating beliefs or practices from various other sources.
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1978 Telegraph (Brisbane) 23 Dec. 2/5 Shirley's people, like most devotees of ‘Meism’, speak to each other in a language called ‘psychobabble’.
1991 D. Coupland Generation X ii. xxii. 126 Me-ism, a search by an individual..to formulate a personally tailored religion by himself. Most frequently a mishmash of reincarnation, personal dialogue with a nebulously defined god figure, naturalism, and karmic eye-for-eye attitudes.
2. Self-interest, egocentrism.
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society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [noun] > egotism
egotizing1789
egotism1800
egoism1801
egomania1825
automania1835
solipsism1836
oneism1840
egoistry1841
self-obsession1884
ego1891
egocentricity1903
egocentrism1926
me-ism1980
1980 U.S. News & World Rep. 9 June 44/2 Is this bottom-line philosophy creating a ‘meism’ politics?
1986 Austral. Printer Dec. 28/1 The growth of me-ism—a sort of self indulgence. It seems that a cultural change has taken place—now people are primarily interested in themselves and also spend more money on themselves than ever before.
1994 Denver Post 23 Jan. e5/4 Another cultural arbiter is The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, founded in response to the ‘me-ism’ of the '80s.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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