A person who believes in his or her own importance or superiority.
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A conceited, boastful person.
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A selfish, self-centered person.
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A person characterized by egotism.
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A person who talks excessively about his or her self.
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Other Word Forms
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Singular:
egotist
Plural:
egotists
Origin of egotist
ego + t (“inserted to avoid hiatus, or after the analogy of dramatist, epigrammatist, etc.”) + -ist
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Egotist Sentence Examples
Unfortunately Tamas Bak6cz, her leading diplomatist from 1 499 to 1521, was as much an egotist as the other magnates, and he sacrificed the political interests of Hungary entirely to personal considerations.
As a man, Vieira would have made a nobler figure if he had not been so great an egotist and so clever a courtier, and the readiness with which he sustained directly opposite opinions at short intervals with equal warmth argues a certain lack of sincerity.
Judged by some passages of his life he would appear a heartless egotist, and yet he was capable of the sincerest friendship and could never dispense with human sympathy.
May 1997 A worthless memoir Bruce Anderson The memoirs of former Conservative party treasurer, Alistair McAlpine, reveal a politically shallow egotist.
But the show's star, selfish egotist Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) revels in the attention and adoration showered on his character Commander Peter Quincy Taggart.