Meanings
comparative more egoistical · superlative most egoistical
- Caring about oneself and the gratification of one's own desires rather than others; selfish.
1 more example
For as long as the individual consciousness is not fully transformed and is still subject to egoistical impulses, so that there is not yet a complete and voluntary accord between the subjective will and universal Reason, the question must arise: who is to decide, in a particular situation of conflict, what the universal will requires?
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 75Synonyms: egocentric, self-centered, solipsistic, egocentric, every man for himself, idiocentric, individualistic, interested
- nonstandardby confusion of the similar wordsEgotistical (tending to talk excessively about oneself).
Synonyms: egocentric, egotistic, full of oneself
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCaring about oneself and the gratification of one's own desires rather than others; selfish.
adjectiveEgotistical (tending to talk excessively about oneself).
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveconcerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*éǵh₂
- Proto-Italic*egō
- Latinego
- Frenchégoïste
- Englishegoist
- Englishegoistic
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishegoistical
Translations
Catalan egoístic, egoista
- egoísticcaring about the gratification of one's own desires
- egoistacaring about the gratification of one's own desires
Danish egoistisk
- egoistiskcaring about the gratification of one's own desires
Esperanto egoista
- egoistacaring about the gratification of one's own desires
Finnish itsekäs, itsekeskeinen
- itsekäscaring about the gratification of one's own desires
- itsekeskeinencaring about the gratification of one's own desires
- egoistinencaring about the gratification of one's own desires
German egoistisch
- egoistischcaring about the gratification of one's own desires
Greek εγωιστικός
- εγωιστικός (egoïstikós)caring about the gratification of one's own desires
Hindi अहंकारी, घमंडी
- अहंकारी (ahaṅkārī)caring about the gratification of one's own desires
- घमंडी (ghamaṇḍī)caring about the gratification of one's own desires
Irish féinspéisíoch
- féinspéisíochcaring about the gratification of one's own desires
Norwegian Bokmål egoistisk
- egoistiskcaring about the gratification of one's own desires
Polish egoistyczny, samolubny
- egoistycznycaring about the gratification of one's own desires
- samolubnycaring about the gratification of one's own desires
Russian эгоисти́чный, эгоисти́ческий
- эгоисти́чный (egoistíčnyj)caring about the gratification of one's own desires
- эгоисти́ческий (egoistíčeskij)caring about the gratification of one's own desires
Ukrainian егоїсти́чний
- егоїсти́чний (ehojistýčnyj)caring about the gratification of one's own desires
Welsh myfïol
- myfïolcaring about the gratification of one's own desires
Cite this entry
egoistical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/egoistical
“egoistical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/egoistical. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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