Egoist is an English word with synonyms like egotist or egocentric. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Egoist meaning
- An advocate of egoism.
- An egocentric or self-centered person.
- An egotist (person who talks excessively about themselves).
Synonyms of Egoist
Using Egoist
- The main meaning on this page is: An advocate of egoism. | An egocentric or self-centered person. | An egotist (person who talks excessively about themselves).
- Useful related words include: egotist, swellhead, unpleasant person, disagreeable person.
- In the example corpus, egoist often appears in combinations such as: the egoist, egoist and, an egoist.
Context around Egoist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Egoist
- In this selection, "egoist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, combative, narcissistic, psychological, promised, anarchists and individualism stand out and add context to how "egoist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a psychological egoist his concept and an asocial egoist individualism and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "egoist" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with egoist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Egoist, an important Modernist literary magazine, published some of his work. (12 words)
It was the exact animation of a corrupt empire driven by the egoist and the vainglorious. (16 words)
He has been described as an impulsive, narcissistic egoist who lives in the shadow of his father. (17 words)
From 1917 he wrote music reviews for The New Age under the pen name William Atheling, and weekly pieces for The Egoist and The Little Review – many of the latter directed against provincialism and ignorance. (35 words)
He was critical of influential individualist thinkers such as Nietzsche and Stirner for promoting an asocial egoist individualism and instead promoted an individualism with solidarity seen as a way to guarantee social equality and harmony. (35 words)
In a review of these novels, in The Egoist, April 1918, May Sinclair first applied the term "stream of consciousness" in a literary context, in her discussion of Richardson's stylistic innovations. (32 words)
Example sentences (14)
Frustration and impatience are sins, a true Muslim can never be pessimist and egoist as it is said “do not despair of the mercy of Allah.
It was the exact animation of a corrupt empire driven by the egoist and the vainglorious.
The worst of Trump's tweets since 2010 show a celebrity businessman's turn from a conspiracy-theory-loving, combative egoist into one of the most powerful people in the world.
He has been described as an impulsive, narcissistic egoist who lives in the shadow of his father.
An advertisement in The Egoist promised it would cover "Cubism, Futurism, Imagisme and all Vital Forms of Modern Art".
Contributions to modern psychology Psychoanalysis Whether or not Sigmund Freud was a psychological egoist, his concept of the pleasure principle borrowed much from psychological egoism and psychological hedonism in particular.
Egoist anarchists claim that egoism will foster genuine and spontaneous union between individuals. citation "Egoism" has inspired many interpretations of Stirner's philosophy.
From 1917 he wrote music reviews for The New Age under the pen name William Atheling, and weekly pieces for The Egoist and The Little Review – many of the latter directed against provincialism and ignorance.
He was critical of influential individualist thinkers such as Nietzsche and Stirner for promoting an asocial egoist individualism and instead promoted an individualism with solidarity seen as a way to guarantee social equality and harmony.
In a review of these novels, in The Egoist, April 1918, May Sinclair first applied the term "stream of consciousness" in a literary context, in her discussion of Richardson's stylistic innovations.
Rousseau argues a citizen cannot pursue his true interest by being an egoist but must instead subordinate himself to the law created by the citizenry acting as a collective.
The Egoist, an important Modernist literary magazine, published some of his work.
The latter, the most prominent English-language egoist journal, was published from 1898 to 1900 with the subtitle 'A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology ' ".
We will discuss Stirner's critique of capitalism before moving onto his vision of an egoist society and how it relates to social anarchism.
Common combinations with egoist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the egoist 5×
- egoist and 2×
- an egoist 2×