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egotisms

NOUN

self-centeredness

Synonyms

WEAK

arrogance assurance boastfulness boasting bragging conceit conceitedness egocentricity egomania gasconade haughtiness insolence megalomania narcissism ostentation overconfidence preoccupation with self presumption pride self-absorption self-admiration self-confidence self-importance self-interest self-love self-possession self-regard self-worship selfishness superiority swellheadedness vainglory vanity vaunting

Antonyms

WEAK

altruism humility selflessness

NOUN

self-importance

Synonyms

STRONGEST

arrogance narcissism self-absorption selfishness

STRONG

boastfulness bragging conceit egoism immodesty pride self-aggrandizement self-centeredness self-praise vainglory vanity

WEAK

self-admiration vainness

Antonyms

STRONG

humility modesty shyness timidity

Example Sentences

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He warned against "egotisms" from prominent bench-warmers like Arjen Robben and Mario Gómez.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2013

Before such a spectacle we are listless, as if history would wait, as if we had time�decades and decades�to transform our mentality, to suppress our customs barriers, to abandon our national egotisms ...

From Time Magazine Archive

There was only one end possible to such a clash of high tempers, national egotisms, and reciprocal ignorances.

From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various

Instead, we found you inflating yourself with all sorts of egotisms and vanities.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold

A man of inconsistencies, egotisms, Alpine grandeurs and crevasses, let us take from him what the gods or protoplasms have allowed.

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John