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self-centered

self-centered adjective: egotistically obsessed with oneself.

Adjective

self-centered (comparative more self-centered, superlative most self-centered)

  1. (US) Egotistically obsessed with oneself.
    • As a rule men through economic conditions marry so late that they have already half exhausted their virile power before they marry. And when they marry young they are so ignorant and so self-centered that they imagine their wives must be satisfied when they are.1922, Frank Harris, “X”, in My Life and Loves
  2. (US) Concerned or relating to the self, and not necessarily the greater good of one's group, community, tribe, etc.; individualistic.
    • [A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165

Synonyms of self-centered

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Forms of self-centered

comparativemore self-centered
superlativemost self-centered
alternative UKself-centred

Origin of self-centered

From self- + centered.

Words formed from self-centered

Questions about self-centered

What does self-centered mean?
Self-centered means egotistically obsessed with oneself.
What part of speech is self-centered?
Self-centered is an adjective.

Words near self-centered in the dictionary

  1. self-censored
  2. self-censoring
  3. self-censors
  4. self-censorship
  5. self-censorships
  6. self-centered
  7. self-centeredness
  8. self-centerednesses
  9. self-centering
  10. self-centration
  11. self-centred

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