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Recent Examples of egocentrism Such assumptions are based more on psychological phenomena like egocentrism. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025 Imagine that a person starts and ends all their consideration with what’s best for them — that’s egocentrism. David Marchese, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025 Other simulations have relied on personality trait theory, which holds that people have varying levels of psychoticism (aggression and egocentrism), extraversion (associated with more daring behaviors) and neuroticism (linked to anxiety and shyness). Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022 The common traits here are a lack of empathy and egocentrism. Ana Reed, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023 There's a certain human egocentrism that undervalues how big the system is. Francis Wilkinson, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011 But as the Allied drive slowed through late 1944, the egocentric Californian raged at Montgomery’s own egocentrism and Eisenhower’s willingness to indulge the British. Jonathan W. Jordan, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022 Rather than counteract that cavalier egocentrism by developing Gede and Lily in any detail, the movie replicates and reinforces it. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2022 Call yourself by name to untangle from your Critic’s egocentrism. Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 3 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for egocentrism
Noun
  • Other passengers on the train include blue-collar worker Sang-hwa (Ma Dong-seok) and his pregnant wife Seong-kyeong (Jung Yu-mi), a high-school baseball team, and the conniving businessman, Yon-suk (Kim Eui-sung) whose selfishness leads to all sorts of terrible twists down the line.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
  • Sometimes, like Jimmy, parents fail, and choose our own selfishness over our children.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • As its name implies, the Emotional Support lip balm ($24), is anything but a vanity project.
    Dahvi Shira, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • According to nutritionist Payal Kothari, author of The Gut, the rise of the high-protein diet has been driven by a mix of vanity and virality.
    Sara Hussain, Vogue, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • My coat and my ego were a bit tarnished as my husband rushed to help me up.
    James Barron, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • Also, any shred of ego one has left after a lifetime of motherhood and being a caregiver/support person will get completely zeroed out while milling around a bunch of athletes.
    Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • And the pas de deux turns out to be the central metaphor of a series built on dualities, power struggles, romances, the attraction of opposites, the narcissism of small differences that divide counterparts on either side of an ocean.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Perfectionism Unlike narcissism, perfectionism was associated with both the likelihood and frequency of experiencing the ick.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Trump’s slogans—America First and Make America Great Again—embody the essence of populism, namely using ideology to advance a political program that is morally unconstrained and driven by collective egoism.
    BÁLINT MADLOVICS, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • On October 15, 1924, André Breton published a manifesto that was as notable for its belligerence as its egotism.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • After his death the day after Easter at age 88, Francis was hailed for pushing Catholics and others to forsake egotism and materialism in favor of a kinder, more tolerant world focused above all on the marginalized.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Egocentrism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/egocentrism. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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