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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

One writer speaks of his “little vanities, his amusing egotisms, and his good natured pomposity”.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard

It is that idea struggling to exist and realise itself in a world of egotisms, animalisms, and brute matter.

From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Friends could now get together, conversation could range over personalities, egotisms have their day, and bygones be disinterred without need of an explanation.

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James