Egotism Synonyms and Antonyms

ēgə-tĭzəm
An exaggerated belief in one's own importance
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. self-importance
  2. swelled head
  3. egoism
  4. bighead
  5. ego
  6. bigheadedness
A regarding of oneself with undue favor
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pride
  2. egoism
  3. conceit
  4. self-love
  5. narcissism
  6. vanity
  7. vainglory
  8. amour-propre
  9. assurance
  10. misanthropy
  11. self-confidence
  12. self-glorification
  13. self-conceit
  14. ego
  15. self-assertion
  16. self-esteem
  17. self-applause
  18. elation
  19. presumption
  20. self-worship
  21. arrogance
  22. insolence
  23. overconfidence
  24. immodesty
  25. self-regard
  26. haughtiness
  27. ostentation
  28. boastfulness
  29. vainness
  30. self-centeredness
  31. egocentricity
  32. egomania
  33. ego trip
Antonyms:
  1. humility
  2. modesty
  3. meekness
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An inflated sense of one's own importance; conceit.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. conceit

Words Related to Egotism

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Egotism Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • To a man of Johnson's strong understanding and irritable temper, the silly egotism and adulation of Boswell must have been as teasing as the constant buzz of a fly.

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