Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Egoistic |
EgoisticAdjective1. Of or relating to the self. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "egoistic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
| Antonym: altruistic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Egoistic |
| English words defined with "egoistic": Egoistically. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
John Ruskin | Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Egoistic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Egoistic" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
egoistic hedonism | 5 |
egoistic | 2 |
egoistic suicide | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "egoistic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | egoistik (egocentric, self-interested), egoist (egoist, egotist, hoggish, self centered, selfish, self-seeker, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Arabic | مؤمن بالأنوية, أناني (asocial, egocentric, egoist, greedy, hoggish, self centered, self centred, selfish). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | егоистичен (piggish, selfish, thoughtless). (various references) | |
Chinese | 利己 (Egoistical). (various references) | |
Czech | sobecký (possessive, self centered, selfish). (various references) | |
Finnish | itsekäs (selfish, self-seeking). (various references) | |
French | égoïste (egoist). (various references) | |
German | egoistisch (egoistical, egoistically, egotistical, selfish, selfishly), selbstsüchtig (egomaniacal, selfish, selfishly). (various references) | |
Greek | εγωιστικόσ (selfish). (various references) | |
Hebrew | א'ויסטי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | önzõ (assertive, egocentric, egoist, egotist, hoggish, self centered, self-interested, selfish, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Indonesian | egoistik, egois (egoist, selfish), memikirkan diri sendiri (self-seeking). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 我が強い (selfish, self-willed). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ががつよい (selfish, self-willed). (various references) | |
Norwegian | egoistisk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egoisticay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | egoísta (base, egotism, egotistically, self centered, self centred, self-absorbed, selfish, self-seeker, self-seeking, small). (various references) | |
Romanian | egoist (cavalier, egoist, egoistical, mean, selfish, self-pleasing, self-seeker, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Russian | эгоистичный (egocentric, egotistical, hoggish, self centered, self centred, self-centred, selfish). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | egoističan. (various references) | |
Spanish | egoísta (egoist, self indulgent, self-interested, selfish, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Swedish | egoistisk (egoistical, egotistic, egotistical, piggish, selfish, self-seeking), självisk (self indulgent, selfish, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Turkish | egoist (calculating, egoist, egotist, egotistical, selfish, self-seeker), bencil (calculating, egoist, egotistical, hoggish, piggish, self centered, self centred, self-absorbed, selfish, self-seeker, thoughtless). (various references) | |
Ukranian | себелюбний (egoistical, selfish), егоїстичний (appropriate, egocentric, egoistical, hoggish, self centered, self centred, selfish). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vị kỷ (egoistical), ích kỷ (dog, egocentric, egoistical, self-interested, selfish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "egoistic": egoistical, egoistically. (additional references) | |
| |
"Egoistic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: egalistic, egoiste, egostic, egotisic, evostick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-i-o-s-t" | |
-2 letters: cestoi, cities, egoist, gestic, iciest, stogie. | |
-3 letters: cesti, cites, coset, cosie, cotes, escot, stoic. | |
-4 letters: cigs, cist, cite, cogs, cost, cote, cots, egis, egos, etic, gest, gets, gies, gist, gits, goes, ices, otic, scot, sect, sego, sice, site, tegs, tics, ties, toes, togs. | |
-5 letters: cig, cis, cog, cos, cot, ego, get, gie, git, gos, got, ice, its, oes, ose, sec, seg, sei, set, sic, sit, sot, teg, tic, tie, tis, toe, tog. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-i-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: egotistic. | |
+2 letters: coexisting, egoistical, eulogistic, gothicizes, isogametic, sectioning. | |
+3 letters: cloistering, congruities, egotistical, geopolitics, iceboatings, neologistic. | |
+4 letters: categorising, cleistogamic, contiguities, egoistically, ergodicities, gastrocnemii, geophysicist, geoscientist, histogenetic, isoantigenic, lexicologist, logicalities, lysogenicity, organicities, recognitions, toxicologies, trichologies. | |
+5 letters: bioenergetics, cleistogamies, climatologies, clotheslining, commiserating, computerising, conjugalities, contingencies, coreligionist, cosignatories, cosmeticizing, deglaciations, disconcerting, disconnecting, discontenting, domesticating, egotistically, excogitations, geometricians, geophysicists, geoscientists, gesticulation, ichthyologies, incongruities, intercrossing, introspecting, lexicologists, lichenologist, miscegenation, misconnecting, pictographies, precognitions, rediscounting, regionalistic, saprogenicity, steroidogenic, tragicomedies, vasectomizing, victimologies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 67 6F 69 73 74 69 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references). --. --- .. ... - .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100111 01101111 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E g o i s t i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0067 006F 0069 0073 0074 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3973817585867569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
