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Definition: Egoism |
EgoismNoun1. Attempting to get personal recognition for yourself (especially by unacceptable means). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "egoism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references) |
Synonyms: EgoismSynonyms: egocentrism (n), self-centeredness (n), self-concern (n), self-interest (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: altruism (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In philosophy, two different theories are labelled egoism: psychological egoism is the view that one is always motivated to act in one's own best interests, while ethical egoism is the view that one ought always to act in one's own best interests. See psychological egoism and ethical egoism.
Generally, the term egoism has been used with pejorative connotations; it has been applied to philosophers such as Bernard de Mandeville and to many other Materialists of his generation, but none of them declared themselves as such. The first Western philosopher to apply the label of egoism to his or her own work was Max Stirner—although he did, in effect, re-invent the meaning of the term to suit his philosophy.
In eastern philosophy, the debate around equivalent terms has been somewhat broader, not merely questioning the ethical validity of "serving oneself", but questioning what the self is, and whether such an entity can be defined or presumed to exist. Debates of this kind span Hinduism, Buddhism, and Neo-Taoism. See: atman, anatman, pudgalavada.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Egoism."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Selfishness | Noun: selfishness; Adjective: self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest; egotism, egoism; amour propre; (vanity); nepotism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Egoism |
| English words defined with "egoism": Egoical, Egomism ♦ Suicism. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "egoism": Egomism, Egotism. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Egoism" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (egoism, self, selfishness, self-seeking), Swedish (egoism, selfishness, self-seeking). |
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George Meredith | The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. |
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| "Egoism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Egoism" is used about 77 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 77 | 37,929 |
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 |
egoism | 39 |
egoism ethical | 30 |
egoism psychological | 11 |
egoism psychology social | 4 |
egoism ethics | 2 |
egoism,selfishness psychology social | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "egoism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | egoizëm (ego, self interest, selfishness, self-love, self-regard). (various references) | |
Arabic | غرور (arrogance, bighead, conceit, delusion, ego, egotism, pretension, pride, sufficiency, vanity), حب الذات (amour propre, pride, self esteem), إفراط في التحدث عن النفس, أنانية (egotism, self interest, selfhood, selfishness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | себелюбие (self interest, selfishness, self-love, self-regard), егоизъм (individualism, piggery, self, self interest, self-regard). (various references) | |
Czech | egoismus (self interest, self-regard), sobectví (egotism, possessiveness, selfhood, selfishness). (various references) | |
Finnish | itsekkyys (egotism, selfishness). (various references) | |
French | egoïsme, égoïsme (egotism). (various references) | |
German | egoismus (egotism, selfinterest, selfishness). (various references) | |
Greek | εγωισμόσ (egotism). (various references) | |
Hebrew | א"בת עצמו, א'ויזם, א יות (egotism), א וכיות (egotism, self interest, selfishness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egoizmus (selfishness, self-love), önzés (assertiveness, egomania, egotism, self interest, selfishness, self-love). (various references) | |
Indonesian | egoisme, keegoisan, keakuan. (various references) | |
Italian | egoismo (selfishness, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 身勝手 (egotism, selfishness), 自己本位 (self-centeredness, selfishness), 自己主義 , 我がまま (disobedience, selfishness, whim, wilfulness), 我が儘 (disobedience, selfishness, whim, wilfulness), 我侭 (disobedience, selfishness, whim, wilfulness), 我儘 (disobedience, selfishness, whim, wilfulness), 主我主義 (love of self), 利己心 (selfishness), 利己主義 (selfishness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅがしゅぎ (love of self), り"しゅぎ (selfishness), り"し" (selfishness), わがまま (disobedience, selfishness, whim, wilfulness, willfulness), じ"しゅぎ, じ"ほ"い (self-centeredness, selfishness), みがって (egotism, selfishness). (various references) | |
Manx | froaishid (assumption, braggadocio, swaggering). (various references) | |
Norwegian | egoisme. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egoismay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | egocentrismo. (various references) | |
Romanian | egoism (self, selfishness, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Russian | эгоизм (ego trip, egomania, self interest, self-hood, self-interest, selfishness, self-regard). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | egoizam. (various references) | |
Spanish | egoísmo (self, self interest, selfhood, selfishness, self-love, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Swedish | själviskhet (selfishness, self-seeking), egoism (selfishness, self-seeking). (various references) | |
Turkish | egoizm, kendini beğenmişlik (egotrip, hoity toity, inflation, megalomania, pomposity, pride, self-conceit, self-importance, smugness), bencillik (individualism, self, selfishness). (various references) | |
Ukranian | себелюбність, егоїзм (selfhood, selfishness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuyết vị kỷ, tính ngoan cố (frowardness, pertainciousness, pertinacity, recalcitrance, recalcitration, tenaciousness, tenacity, wilfulness), tính cố chấp chủ nghĩa vị kỷ, tính ích kỷ (selfishness, self-love). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "egoism": egoisms. (additional references) | |
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"Egoism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agonism, eggish, egnism, egoic, ekofisk, elohim, geois, geoism. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "egoism" (pronounced ē"gōi'zum) |
| 5 | -ō i' z u m | heroism. |
| 4 | -i' z u m | abolitionism, absenteeism, absolutism, activism, adventurism, agrarianism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, anachronism, aneurism, animism, antagonism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, authoritarianism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, catechism, centralism, chauvinism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, communism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, creationism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, determinism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egalitarianism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, expansionism, expressionism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, feminism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, hedonism, helotism, hooliganism, humanism, hypnotism, idealism, illusionism, imperialism, impressionism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, interventionism, Irredentism, isolationism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, lesbianism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, mechanism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, microorganism, militarism, minimalism, modernism, monasticism, monetarism, monism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, obstructionism, opportunism, optimism, organism, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, paganism, parallelism, parkinsonism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, perfectionism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, professionalism, protectionism, provincialism, puritanism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, recidivism, relativism, republicanism, revisionism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, satanism, sectarianism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tokenism, totalitarianism, tourism, truism, unionism, vandalism, vegetarianism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism. |
| 3 | -z u m | bosom, careerism, chasm, cytoplasm, enthusiasm, iconoclasm, ism, microcosm, neoplasm, orgasm, phantasm, prism, sarcasm, schism, spasm. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-m-o-s" | |
-1 letter: gismo. | |
-2 letters: egis, egos, gems, gies, goes, megs, migs, mise, miso, mogs, sego, semi, smog, some. | |
-3 letters: ego, ems, gem, gie, gos, ism, meg, mig, mis, mog, mos, oes, oms, ose, seg, sei, sim, som. | |
-4 letters: em, es, go, is, me, mi, mo, oe, om, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-m-o-s" | |
+1 letter: egoisms, egotism, imagoes, moggies, ogreism, semilog. | |
+2 letters: demigods, eglomise, egotisms, ergotism, gomerils, mendigos, misbegot, mislodge, mitogens, moseying, ogreisms, oogamies, smidgeon, smoggier. | |
+3 letters: amidogens, apogamies, armigeros, becomings, besmoking, comingles, egomanias, embosking, embossing, epigonism, ergotisms, eulogiums, exogamies, filmgoers, glamorise, gloomiest, gouramies, homegirls, ideograms, impetigos, isogamete, isogamies, lightsome, misgovern, mislodged, mislodges, modelings, molesting, morseling, myologies, neologism, oligomers, semigloss, semigroup, semiology, smidgeons, smoggiest, something. | |
+4 letters: agrimonies, agronomies, allogamies, angiosperm, armigerous, autogamies, collegiums, commingles, cosmogenic, demagogies, demonising, disembogue, dogmatizes, egomaniacs, eigenmodes, embosoming, endogamies, epigonisms, ergonomics, ergonomist, fishmonger, flamingoes, foreignism, gemmations, gemologies, gemologist, geochemist, geomancies, geometrics, geometrids, geometries, geometrise, geotropism, glamorised, glamorises, glamorizes, gloominess, gormandise, gramineous, guillemots, gumshoeing, hegemonies, hemizygous, hologamies, homogamies, homogenies, homogenise, homogonies, homologies, ignominies, immunogens, isogametes, isogametic, leguminous, mahoganies, megascopic, megasporic, melodising, memorising, menologies, misgoverns, misogamies, misogynies, misologies, mixologies, moistening, monetising, monogamies, monogenies, monogynies, monologies, morganites, morselling, moviegoers, mycologies, neologisms, nomologies, omniranges, omophagies, polygamies, pomologies, reimposing, rigmaroles, rosemaling, seaborgium, seismogram, seismology, semeiology, semigroups, smoldering, smothering, vagotomies, xenogamies, zymologies. | |
+5 letters: angiosperms, anisogamies, besmoothing, bridegrooms, cinemagoers, cleistogamy, compressing, consignment, cosmogonies, cosmologies, decomposing, delightsome, demigoddess, demolishing, dichogamies, disembogued, disembogues, dislodgment, dogmatizers, economising, egocentrism, emigrations, empoisoning, epitomising, ergonomists, ergotamines, etymologies, etymologise, etymologist, fishmongers, foreignisms, geminations, gemmologies, gemmologist, gemologists, geochemists, geometrised, geometrises, geometrizes, geotropisms, glamorizers, glamourizes, glucosamine, goniometers, gormandised, gormandises, gormandizes, gourmandise, hemangiomas, hemoglobins, homecomings, homemakings, homogenised, homogenises, homogenizes, homologizes, hymnologies, ignoramuses, ironmongers, isomerizing, karyogamies, ligamentous, lightsomely, limnologies, logomachies, lovemakings, magnificoes, mammalogies, megalopolis, meningiomas, mesopelagic, methodising, metrologies, metrologist, microimages, microphages, mignonettes, mimeographs, misbecoming, misbegotten, misdiagnose, misgoverned, misordering, modernising, mongrelizes, monogenesis, monophagies, monseigneur, moviegoings, museologies, museologist, mycophagies, mystagogies, mythologies, neostigmine, noisemaking, nonmeetings, outscheming, oversmoking, plasminogen, polygamizes, recomposing, regionalism, resmoothing, resummoning, rigamaroles, rosemalings, seaborgiums, seismograms, seismograph, semaphoring, semasiology, semiologies, semiologist, sermonizing, smoothening, smouldering, solemnizing, somerseting, spermagonia, symbologies, temporising, thigmotaxes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 67 6F 69 73 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). --. --- .. ... -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100111 01101111 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E g o i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0067 006F 0069 0073 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)397381758579 |
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