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/sɛlf-sˈɛntərd/ Listen

adjective

Self-centred, Self-centered adj.

Centered in itself, or in one's self. "There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved."

Interested solely or primiarily in oneself, or one's own welfare; disinclined to consider the interests of others; selfish; egotistical.

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Etymology of 'Self-centered'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Self-centered" Quotes from Famous Books

... and the gratification of the appetites and passions. The utmost care, therefore, must be exercised by the parents, from the very beginning, if the affections and desires of the child are to be trained away from itself and not permitted to become self-centered. Happy is the child whose mother knows how to direct those earliest manifestations of love. The undisciplined senses and appetites easily degenerate into indulgence of passion, or grow into that moral control ...

— Parent and Child Vol. III., Child Study and Training • Mosiah Hall

... fall, and use your forces with discretion. Potterers and scruple-mongers are soon reduced to inaction. It needs but a glimmer of common sense to perceive that man is not made to pass his life in a self-centered trance. ...

— The Simple Life • Charles Wagner

... hypersuggestible, frequent { in the mild depressions and in all victims of { self-attention. { Retardation { found in most depressions. { Deficiency { as in idiocy—the inability to form new concepts. { Acceleration { as in hypo-mania. { Poverty { as in the abnormally self-centered; { as in melancholia. { Rambling ideas { as in chronic insanity. { Flight of ideas { as in manias, hysterias, and acute deliriums. Disorders / Fixed ideas of < as in paranoia. Ideation Perversions (concepts change their meaning altogether) { as in dementia. { Ideogenous pains { as in ...

— Applied Psychology for Nurses • Mary F. Porter

... man lives all alone and as self-centered as I," the other replied, smiling, "it is fatally easy for him to do that; he may blend himself with his ideals in such a curious way that he never talks about anything else. But if you will excuse that, I will tell you ...

— King Midas • Upton Sinclair

... through the easy development of boundless resources, wealth has increased with twofold greater rapidity than numbers, so that we have become secure against the financial vicissitudes of other countries and, alike in business and in opinion, are self-centered and truly independent. Here more and more care is given to provide education for everyone born on our soil. Here religion, released from political connection with the civil government, refuses to subserve ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

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