(n.) 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.
(n.) Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was not possible in a world dominated by greed, hatred, war, egoism and class.
(2) Today, we have to finally begin to remind ourselves of this banal, and perhaps boring truth: the only alternative [to the EU] is political chaos, the return to national egoisms, and in consequence, the triumph of anti-democratic tendencies, which can lead to history repeating itself.” Johnson’s remarks also triggered disbelief in Germany.
(3) This motto--which is merely a rewording of the command to "love thy neighbor as thyself"--is compatible with man's natural structure, and although it is based on altruistic egoism, it could hardly be attacked as unethical.
(4) Along with some positive traits as accuracy, economy, marked were egoism, egocentrism, dependency trends and other negative traits preventing social adaptation.
(5) Romney, by contrast, was viewed as a "locust capitalist", he said, who "spreads social frigidity and egoism".
(6) They are accused of the most incompatible crimes, of egoism and a mania for power, indifference to the fate of their cause, fanaticism, triviality, lack of humour, buffoonery and irreverence.
(7) This is partly an old man’s lament for innocent childhood days spent gathering wood, selling flowers, and chasing fish in the creek, but also part of his discourse against consumerism, egoism and what he calls “mental poverty”.
(8) Futurism held in equal contempt symbolism, classicism, moralism, parliamentarianism, feminism, "Don Juanism", individualism, archaism, egoism, pessimism, "and every kind of materialistic self-serving cowardice".
(9) Human behavior--from its most elementary states up to its most exquisite differentiae--is certainly determined by egoism.
(10) Very much like egoism, competence is one of life's ingredients in its own right Living beings compete among themselves to secure their territoriality (as far as Man is concerned, his personality).
(11) Godard's movie ran to a rhythm of disconnected imagery and deliberately garbled subtitles ("spacial form egoism", "empire or tourism").
(12) If we dare admit this fundamental egoism, then--some day--we may come to exercise a free and conscious influence upon our own evolution.
(13) Three ethical theories--egoism, utilitarianism, and formalism--are used to analyze the conflict and formulate solutions.
Egotism
Definition:
(n.) The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
(2) These patients were treated with pyridoxine, and the specific activities of EGOT were determined after 2 and 4 weeks.
(3) We tested the validity of the egotism model of human helplessness.
(4) Her newspaper profiles over the years are peppered with self-deprecating references to her sporting ruthlessness: her constant mentions of her selfishness and egotism; her win-at-all-costs, only-gold-medals-matter mentality; or the time she flung her helmet at her boyfriend in frustration after losing a race.
(5) Before treatment, the patients showed a deficiency of vitamin B6 as determined by 1) a comparison of the specific activities of EGOT with those of a control group (P less than 0.001); and 2) a differential assay based upon the principle of unsaturation and saturation of a Coenzyme-Apoenzyme System (CAS), as applied to EGOT.
(6) The specific activities (S.A.) of the glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase from erythrocytes (EGOT) of 75 women taking 16 diversified contraceptive formulations were determined by the principle (CAS) of unsaturation and saturation of receptors of the Coenzyme-Apoenzyme-System with the coenzyme, pyridoxal 5'-phosphate.
(7) Are you a gay builder, a straight hairdresser, a female lorry driver or a politician without a trace of egotism?
(8) Following changes were observed in women treated with oral contraceptives: 1) increased excretion of kynurenic acid and xanthurenic acid following tryptophan load; 2) increased EGOT activity and also an increase in vitro stimulation of EGOT with added PALP; 3) increased plasma vitamin A levels; 4) fall in erythrocyte folate levels; 5) fall in erythrocyte transketolase activity with no change in vitro stimulation with TPP; and 6) fall in erythrocyte riboflavin concentration associated with a decrease in erythrocyte glutathione reductase activity and increase in vitro stimulation with FAD.
(9) Stimulation of the EGOT by exogenous PLP (EGOT index) was less in dialyzed patients (1.60) than normal subjects (1.80) while the undialyzed uremic subjects had a greater than normal stimulation (2.12).
(10) Altruism and egotism are the same thing,” she says.
(11) Ambitious, serious, and much superior to the average ministerial platform speech, it may have lacked the virtuoso egotism of Boris Johnson’s address soon afterwards in the same hall.
(12) If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'.
(13) No visit from Dr Freud is needed to recognise that the devouring snake lurking deep in the body of the hysteric in "The Bosom Serpent" is not just the "egotism" of the longer title of the story, but guilt for auto-erotic naughtiness.
(14) GSH Px activity was not found to correlate with hexokinase or EGOT activity, indicating that it was not a strongly age-dependent enzyme.
(15) After six months' treatment, EGOT activity and the calculated total EGOT activity were increased, but no changes were observed in the degree of in vitro stimulation (which is a more reliable parameter).
(16) The alternative is to become a spacefaring civilization, and a multi-planetary species.” Ashlee Vance , longtime tech journalist and author of Elon Musk: Tesla, Space, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, thinks these ambitions are driven by a mix of entrepreneurial curiosity, altruism and a dash of egotism.
(17) It is difficult, in fact, to reread "Rappaccini's Daughter", with its portrait of a father ready to sacrifice his child to his intellectual egotism, and not be put in mind of something like Hawthorne's cruelly fluctuating mood swings about his own children.
(18) Subjects attributing their failure to religious discrimination by gentiles reported feeling more aggression, sadness, anxiety, and egotism on the Mood Adjective Check List than those who could not invoke anti-Semitism as an explanation for their failure.
(19) In studies of anaemic states, subjects with iron deficiency anaemia demonstrated elevated levels of both PnK and saturated EGOT, while seven out of 17 subjects with inflammatory anaemia had subnormal PnK but variable saturated EGOT activities.
(20) But he warned against a retreat into nationalism after Brexit, saying the bloc could enjoy a future of “unity and cohesion” but only if EU and national leaders guarded against “the major risk – that of dislocation, egotism, a turning in on ourselves”.