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English
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Etymology
ego- + -centric
Adjective
egocentric (comparative more egocentric, superlative most egocentric)
- Selfish, self-centered.
- Egotistical.
- Relating to spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on one's own location within the environment (as when giving the direction as "right" rather than "north"); opposed to allocentric.
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egotistical
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: эгацэнтры́чны (ehacentrýčny)
- Bulgarian: егоцентричен (bg) (egocentričen)
- Catalan: egocèntric (ca) m, egocèntrica (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自我中心的, 利己主义的
- Czech: sebestředný
- Danish: selvoptaget (da)
- Dutch: egocentrisch (nl), egoistisch
- Esperanto: memama, egoisma
- Finnish: itsekeskeinen (fi)
- French: égocentrique (fr)
- Galician: egocéntrico (gl) m, egocéntrica f
- Georgian: ეგოცენტრული (egocenṭruli)
- German: egozentrisch (de)
- Greek: εγωκεντρικός (el) m (egokentrikós)
- Hebrew: אגוצנטרי (he)
- Indonesian: egosentris (id)
- Irish: féinlárnach
- Italian: egocentrico (it) m, egocentrica (it) f
- Korean: 자기중심적인 (jagijungsimjeogin)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: egocentryczny (pl)
- Portuguese: egocêntrico (pt) m, egocêntrica (pt) f
- Romanian: egocentric (ro)
- Russian: эгоцентри́чный (ru) (egocentríčnyj), эгоцентри́ческий (ru) (egocentríčeskij)
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: egocéntrico, ensimismado (es)
- Swedish: egocentrisk (sv), självupptagen (sv)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: เอาแต่ใจ (th) (ao-dtɛ̀ɛ-jai)
- Turkish: benci (tr), benmerkezcil
- Ukrainian: егоцентри́чний (ehocentrýčnyj)
- Welsh: hunanganolog
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Noun
egocentric (plural egocentrics)
- A person who is egocentric.
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French égocentrique.
Adjective
egocentric m or n (feminine singular egocentrică, masculine plural egocentrici, feminine and neuter plural egocentrice)
- self-centered
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