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EGOCENTRIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does egocentric mean?
• EGOCENTRIC (noun)
The noun EGOCENTRIC has 1 sense:
1. a self-centered person with little regard for others
Familiarity information: EGOCENTRIC used as a noun is very rare.
• EGOCENTRIC (adjective)
The adjective EGOCENTRIC has 1 sense:
1. limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs
Familiarity information: EGOCENTRIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A self-centered person with little regard for others
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
egocentric; egoist
Hypernyms ("egocentric" is a kind of...):
selfish person (a person who is unusually selfish)
Derivation:
egocentric (limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs
Synonyms:
egocentric; egoistic; egoistical; self-centered; self-centred
Similar:
self-absorbed; self-involved (absorbed in your own interests or thoughts etc)
Also:
selfish (concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others)
Derivation:
egocentric (a self-centered person with little regard for others)
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