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Another word for egotism

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egotism

n.

egoism, conceit, vanity, pride, assurance, self-love, narcissism, self-confidence, self-glorification, self-conceit, self-assertion, self-esteem, self-applause, elation, presumption, self-worship, arrogance, insolence, overconfidence, immodesty, self-regard, haughtiness, ostentation, boastfulness, vainglory, misanthropy, self-centeredness, egocentricity, egomania; see also pride 1.

Antonyms humility, modesty*, meekness.

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Another word for egotism

noun

An exaggerated belief in one's own importance:
egoism, self-importance. (Informal) bighead, bigheadedness, swelled head. See self-love
A regarding of oneself with undue favor:
amour-propre, conceit, ego, egoism, narcissism, pride, vainglory, vainness, vanity. (Slang) ego trip. See self-love

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And though he talks much of himself, his egotism is the genial.
Henry's egotism was profound, and personal motives underlay his public action.
But even in this crowning triumph the cramping egotism of his nature - a mental vice which now grew on him rapidly - fatally narrowed his outlook and led him to commit an irretrievable blunder.
His character, notwithstanding the egotism by which it was disfigured, had an amiable and engaging side.
The saving salt of Elizabeth's character, with all its wellnigh incredible mixture of heroism and egotism, meanness and magnificence, was simply this, that, overmuch as she loved herself, she did yet love England better.

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