What's the difference between egoist and egoistical?

Egoist


Definition:

  • (n.) One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self.
  • (n.) A believer in egoism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three constructs of TUA were identified: passive fatalistic, egoistic, and conscientious.
  • (2) Results of both studies, then, suggest that the motivation to help evoked by empathy is not egoistic motivation to avoid negative social evaluation.
  • (3) Eight installments have now appeared in the Little Review of New York but unfortunately the Egoist (London) cannot find any printer to set up these chapters,” writes the novelist.
  • (4) It was further assumed that there is a behavioral tendency to reduce differences among these aspects by means of two types of behavioral principle: egoistic and contextual.
  • (5) He was the opposite of an egotist, being neither boastful nor conceited, but his professional personality had a streak of the kindly egoist to it.
  • (6) Three experiments tested whether empathy evokes egoistic motivation to share vicariously in the victim's joy at improvement (the empathic-joy hypothesis) instead of altruistic motivation to increase the victim's welfare (the empathy-altruism hypothesis).
  • (7) Further we learn that self-preservation cannot be an egoistical interest; it depends on the attachment to others.
  • (8) It was shown that subjects more dependent on alcohol are significantly less active in the role of sexual partner and in support of family, as well as are less effective in performing such roles and are more egoistic in the role of sexual partner than men less dependent on alcohol.
  • (9) He was an egoist who was interested in the material gains of power – the young women, the popularity and power."
  • (10) Two experiments contrasted predictions from the selfless and egoistic alternatives in the paradigm typically used by Batson and his associates.
  • (11) A phlegmatic person is characterised by a lack of egoistic or altruistic instincts while feelings of nausea or fear are increased.
  • (12) Mankind also grows exponentially, killing thousands of other species, poisoning the oceans and soft waters, polluting the atmosphere, all for his egoistic needs.
  • (13) All good knockabout stuff and the makings of a legend - irascible, menacing, self-important, egoistical.
  • (14) concerned with knowledge vs. feelings about the deprivation) and egoistical-fraternal (i.e.
  • (15) By taking into account relevant specialized literature and the results of other studies, the following general hypotheses were advanced, namely, that the communication of speech handicapped children is troubled in respect of its content and relation, and that their social behaviour shows more egoistic than cooperative features.
  • (16) If a player's choice depends on its own play (cooperate or defect) at the previous trial, it becomes possible for cooperative strategies to increase when rare in a population of egoists.
  • (17) In these conditions, through the conscious choice between the egoistic and the altruistic drives, could the growing person form the moral attitudes fitting his or her own nature.
  • (18) The results were interpreted as providing support for an egoistically based interpretation of helping under conditions of high empathy.
  • (19) An egoistic alternative account of this evidence was proposed and tested in our work.
  • (20) To be egoistical is to be ambitious and also indifferent to the views of others.

Egoistical


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three constructs of TUA were identified: passive fatalistic, egoistic, and conscientious.
  • (2) Results of both studies, then, suggest that the motivation to help evoked by empathy is not egoistic motivation to avoid negative social evaluation.
  • (3) Eight installments have now appeared in the Little Review of New York but unfortunately the Egoist (London) cannot find any printer to set up these chapters,” writes the novelist.
  • (4) It was further assumed that there is a behavioral tendency to reduce differences among these aspects by means of two types of behavioral principle: egoistic and contextual.
  • (5) He was the opposite of an egotist, being neither boastful nor conceited, but his professional personality had a streak of the kindly egoist to it.
  • (6) Three experiments tested whether empathy evokes egoistic motivation to share vicariously in the victim's joy at improvement (the empathic-joy hypothesis) instead of altruistic motivation to increase the victim's welfare (the empathy-altruism hypothesis).
  • (7) Further we learn that self-preservation cannot be an egoistical interest; it depends on the attachment to others.
  • (8) It was shown that subjects more dependent on alcohol are significantly less active in the role of sexual partner and in support of family, as well as are less effective in performing such roles and are more egoistic in the role of sexual partner than men less dependent on alcohol.
  • (9) He was an egoist who was interested in the material gains of power – the young women, the popularity and power."
  • (10) Two experiments contrasted predictions from the selfless and egoistic alternatives in the paradigm typically used by Batson and his associates.
  • (11) A phlegmatic person is characterised by a lack of egoistic or altruistic instincts while feelings of nausea or fear are increased.
  • (12) Mankind also grows exponentially, killing thousands of other species, poisoning the oceans and soft waters, polluting the atmosphere, all for his egoistic needs.
  • (13) All good knockabout stuff and the makings of a legend - irascible, menacing, self-important, egoistical.
  • (14) concerned with knowledge vs. feelings about the deprivation) and egoistical-fraternal (i.e.
  • (15) By taking into account relevant specialized literature and the results of other studies, the following general hypotheses were advanced, namely, that the communication of speech handicapped children is troubled in respect of its content and relation, and that their social behaviour shows more egoistic than cooperative features.
  • (16) If a player's choice depends on its own play (cooperate or defect) at the previous trial, it becomes possible for cooperative strategies to increase when rare in a population of egoists.
  • (17) In these conditions, through the conscious choice between the egoistic and the altruistic drives, could the growing person form the moral attitudes fitting his or her own nature.
  • (18) The results were interpreted as providing support for an egoistically based interpretation of helping under conditions of high empathy.
  • (19) An egoistic alternative account of this evidence was proposed and tested in our work.
  • (20) To be egoistical is to be ambitious and also indifferent to the views of others.

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