Antonyms for egoisms


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ee-goh-iz-uh m, eg-oh-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈi goʊˌɪz əm, ˈɛg oʊ-


Definition of egoisms

Origin :
  • 1785, in metaphysics (see egoist), from French égoisme (1755), from Modern Latin egoismus, from Latin ego (see ego). Meaning "self-interest" is from 1800.
  • noun self-centeredness
Example sentences :
  • Without this two egoisms cannot exist side by side and develop.
  • Extract from : « Morals and the Evolution of Man » by Max Simon Nordau
  • It would be, he saw, a conflict of egoisms, and he could not afford to risk his own.
  • Extract from : « Spiritual Adventures » by Arthur Symons
  • There is a similar relation between the egoisms of the two men.
  • Extract from : « Landmarks in French Literature » by G. Lytton Strachey
  • Pardon me these egoisms, which, if ever excusable, are so when writing to a friend to whom our concerns are not uninteresting.
  • Extract from : « Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson » by Thomas Jefferson
  • With all its faults, all its egoisms, take this last essay in my first book of essays, and do not think hardly of me.
  • Extract from : « 'I Believe' and other essays » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
  • Let him consider it as being such a chapter, and its egoisms will require no apology.
  • Extract from : « Our Hundred Days in Europe » by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • I begin this record with the columnar, self-reliant capital letter to signify that there is no disguise in its egoisms.
  • Extract from : « Our Hundred Days in Europe » by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • The way a man handles his egoisms is a test of his mastery over an audience or a class of readers.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 » by Various
  • His egoisms would spoil what little of the natural was left in the regions of Vanity Fair.
  • Extract from : « The Imitator » by Percival Pollard

Synonyms for egoisms

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