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語源

From Latin ego (“I”) + -t- (perhaps modelled on dogmatism, despotism, idiotism) + -ism.

発音

名詞

egotism (usually uncountable, plural egotisms)

1. A tendency to talk excessively about oneself.
2. A belief that one is superior to or more important than others.
3. (countable) The result or product of being egoistic.
4. (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egoism (belief that behavior should be directed towards one's self-interest).

同意語

• pride, vanity, conceit, narcissism
• egocentrism, egoism

派生語

関連する語

• alter-egotism
• egotist
• egotistic
• egotistical

参考

• solipsism

参照

Further reading

• “egotism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “egotism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.