self-centered

English

Etymology

self- +‎ centered

Adjective

self-centered (comparative more self-centered, superlative most self-centered) (American spelling)

1. Egotistically obsessed with oneself.
2. Concerned or relating to the self, and not necessarily the greater good of one's group, community, tribe, etc.; individualistic.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165:

     [A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action.

Alternative forms

• self-centred (UK)

Translations

egotistically obsessed with oneself — see egocentric

See also

• self-absorbed