Egoism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EGOISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the doctrine that the pursuit of self-interest is the highest good
• an ethical theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of morality.
• The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.
• Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one\'s self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.
• (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare in the basis of morality
• concern for your own interests and welfare
• excessive concern for one's own interests
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• extreme devotion to self-interest
• excessive concern for one\'s own interests

Words related to EGOISM

egoisms10

Words that contain EGOISM

egoisms10 panegoism14 panegoisms15

How to use EGOISM in a sentence

• After having ascertained the amount of the wealth amassed by his father, he returned in the evening to the death chamber, his soul puffed up with a horrible egoism.
• He was possessed of the very ordinary egoism that seeks its welfare at the expense of others.
• If love were in reality a concealed egoism, it would yield to control in cases where it promises advantage, which, as experience shows, is not the fact.
• But in the minds of most of our present imperialists, imperial egoism is now deprived of its only possible psychological basis.
• Egoism is a quality so deeply rooted in every personality that it is on egotistical ends only that one may safely rely in order to rouse the individual to activity.
• And his attitude towards himself was so disengaged, so apart and aloof, so critically appreciative, that it was impossible to accuse him of egoism.
• Instead of being men of a cause, they make the cause that of a man, and they degrade the most sacred realities to the paltry level of their ambitious egoism.
• Do not let us limit esteem to the family nor indulgence to egoism.
• Do my best to show a forgiving spirit in face of his egoism.
• In the latter respect Iago is nearly or quite the equal of Richard, in egoism he is the superior, and his inferiority in passion and massive force only makes him more repulsive.
• But, in the second place, it is not true that in Iago this egoism and this want are absolute, and that in this sense he is a thing of mere evil.
• So much for professional egoism and six-cylinder prestige.
• She preferred to be herself, with the egoism of women.
• We must have a couple of Powers to account for discomfort when Egoism is the kernel of our religion.
• This horrible fancy has in it something decidedly attractive to the somewhat mystical egoism of our day.
• It came, I suppose, through Nietzsche, who preached something that is called egoism.
• He was the most autobiographical of authors, with an egoism nearly as complete, and to us as delightful, as the egoism of Montaigne.
• If he desire a lash for egoism, this, perhaps, is also here.
• His racial egoism helps obscure the obscure sunlight here in Germany and blinds him.
• I was merely keeping my promise to point out that from among the motives of even the best hosts pride and egoism are not absent.
• In a moment the egoism of the lover made a generous nature forget all else but the passion that absorbed him.
• The poor little butterflies are glad, for a short time, to put up with stupidity and egoism for the sake of a temporary relief from sordid discomfort and gloom.
• She loves to let her wit play about the egoism of social caste.
• To the state of Passion has succeeded the state of Egoism.
• It is in the true interest of Passion to be sacrificed to Egoism, and of Egoism to be sacrificed to Order.
• It is this false egoism that is to be considered as avidyâ.
• But when we first burst upon this peaceful township I think we may say, without undue egoism, that we created a profound sensation.
• All he understood was that the old indifference, the old apathy, the old subjective, tormenting egoism, had given place to a consuming interest, an impassioned delight.
• They are but one manifestation of the egoism of the unmarried American woman.
• The will in criminals, when it is not impaired by disease, is, in the main, dominated by a boundless egoism.

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