(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.
Oneself
Definition:
(pron.) A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self.
Example Sentences:
(1) This "first exposure" determines whether one views oneself as "sick" or changed.
(2) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
(3) It is doubtful, however, whether complaining to Hillary Clinton about settlements, and positioning oneself as the "independent technocrat" to head up a unity government, will be enough to rescue his reputation across the occupied territories.
(4) This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.
(5) Days when the only thing to do is to grit one’s teeth and force oneself to think different thoughts.
(6) Nearly all of the world’s religions involve some sort of ritual cleansing by submerging oneself or parts of the body in water, from mikveh to baptism to ablutions.
(7) Both types of abuse were associated with the following behaviors: running away; considering hurting oneself; suicide attempts; and the use of drugs, pot (marijuana), cigarettes, and laxatives.
(8) The 10 most common symptoms were paranoid ideas, hearing of voices, talking to oneself, insomnia, aggression, abnormal behaviour, laughing to oneself, disturbed behaviour, crying to oneself and withdrawn behaviour.
(9) The markers, maps, cues, and senses used to orient oneself to the immediate environment are not recognizable.
(10) It was found that a considerable decrease in the appraisal of oneself as a sexual partner is generally basic to the problem.
(11) This eagerness to declare oneself exempt from the rules to which others are bound, on the grounds of one's own objective superiority, is always the animating sentiment behind nationalistic criminality.
(12) Attitudes about oneself, illness and death, occupation, personal growth, and professional relationships were assessed with a semantic differential questionnaire before training, after training, and 1 year later.
(13) Sometimes, it seems, calling oneself a feminist is a personal act of vanity, with no wider resonance – witness Louise Mensch the feminist , Theresa May the feminist and, most fantastically, Margaret Thatcher the feminist, even though her supporters will happily tell you that the woman stood for no one but herself.
(14) Building walls is just isolating oneself,” he said.
(15) Serum cholesterol varied directly (p less than 0.02) with: body weight, serum albumin, serum total protein, serum sodium, ability to walk, and ability to feed oneself; and indirectly (p less than 0.02) with death rate, degree of functional dependence, and serum SGOT and LDH.
(16) Negative emotional states were induced in second-grade children by one of four processes, all of which involved social rejection content: cognition that focused on (a) the self (thinking about oneself being rejected by a peer) or (b) another person (thinking about a peer being rejected); or experience that related to (c) oneself (actually being socially rejected) or (d) observing another (vicarious: seeing a peer be socially rejected).
(17) By limiting oneself to these planes, the examination can be carried out on patients with acute symptoms.
(18) Pursuing protectionism is like locking oneself in a dark room.
(19) Itʼs quite a feat when you think about it, to cast oneself as a great feminist crusader while you perfect the art of self objectification and then go on to spend your entire career pandering to the male gaze.
(20) Asked about the moral implications, RTL quoted her as saying: “I think one must decide that for oneself.” Bild reported on Raunigk 10 years ago when she gave birth to her 13th child, quoting her at the time as saying she had originally envisaged having only one.