0 thinking only about yourself and considering yourself better and more important than other people:
Finding herself world-famous by the time she was 18 only encouraged the actress's egotism.
1 the tendency to think only about yourself and consider yourself better and more important than other people
Activist students and intellectuals are currently regarded as having brought victimisation upon themselves through egotism, elitism and gross miscalculation of possible outcomes.
I, personally, find monologues a bit tedious and far too much to do with the egotism of an actor.
This will involve experimenting and working together with mutual respect, accentuating the craft of the work over the romantic egotism of its 'art'.
She therefore makes a conscious effort in her everyday life to overcome what she sees as the greatest stumbling block in her path towards spiritual attainment-her egotism and self-centredness.
Mukunda also emphasizes 'egotism' and its excessive concerns for wealth and external signs of honor in his retelling.
He lived long enough to observe the new generation of symphonists, and with a mixture of egotism and astuteness saw them as imitators 'misreading' his work.
Even the less flattering physician stereotypes (including attributions of overconfidence, arrogance, and egotism) would, if internalized, tend to enhance a physician's perception of herself as capable of autonomous action.
Both parties see only their own interest - that is national egotism.