egoism

Word family adjectiveegocentricegoisticegolessegomaniacalegotisticadverbegocentricallyegoisticallyegotisticallynounegocentricityegocentrismegoismegoistegoityegomaniaegomaniacegotheismegotismegotistegoverbegotize

e·go·is·m /ˈiːɡəʊɪzəm, ˈeɡ- $ -ɡoʊ-/ noun [uncountableU]

SELFISHegotism 自我主义；自高自大

—egoist noun [countableC]

—egoistic /ˌiːɡəʊˈɪstɪk◂, ˌeɡ- $ -ɡoʊ-/ adjectiveadj

Examples from the Corpus

egoism• The most extravagant possibilities of an egoism which both enhances and distorts awareness spring from the appetite for power.• Extinguish egoism, with its desires and fears, and Nirvana is immediately ours!• The human species has not fully attained the goals proper to it, because of its self-entrapment in egoism and destructive desire.• But for all his jaundiced egoism and florid cynicism, Rice is not a bad man.• The psychopath, even so, falls far short of the ideal of philosophical egoism.• Yet how could such political egoism be sustained in the face of industrial society, whose appalling realities so soon appeared?• If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism.• But it would not be the egoism imposed temporally by external necessity on the two men in the boat.

词汇	egoism
释义	egoism Word family adjectiveegocentricegoisticegolessegomaniacalegotisticadverbegocentricallyegoisticallyegotisticallynounegocentricityegocentrismegoismegoistegoityegomaniaegomaniacegotheismegotismegotistegoverbegotize e·go·is·m /ˈiːɡəʊɪzəm, ˈeɡ- $ -ɡoʊ-/ noun [uncountableU] SELFISHegotism 自我主义；自高自大 —egoist noun [countableC] —egoistic /ˌiːɡəʊˈɪstɪk◂, ˌeɡ- $ -ɡoʊ-/ adjectiveadj Examples from the Corpus egoism• The most extravagant possibilities of an egoism which both enhances and distorts awareness spring from the appetite for power.• Extinguish egoism, with its desires and fears, and Nirvana is immediately ours!• The human species has not fully attained the goals proper to it, because of its self-entrapment in egoism and destructive desire.• But for all his jaundiced egoism and florid cynicism, Rice is not a bad man.• The psychopath, even so, falls far short of the ideal of philosophical egoism.• Yet how could such political egoism be sustained in the face of industrial society, whose appalling realities so soon appeared?• If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism.• But it would not be the egoism imposed temporally by external necessity on the two men in the boat.
随便看	low maintenance low-maintenance lowmaintenance low man on the totem pole low mark lowness lownesses low on a list low on a list of low on a list of something low on a list of sth low paid low-paid lowpaid low pitched low-pitched lowpitched low-pitched roof low-point low point lowpoint low pressure low-pressure lowpressure low-profile