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English
Etymology
egotistic + -al.
Adjective
egotistical (comparative more egotistical, superlative most egotistical)
- Tending to talk excessively about oneself.
- Believing oneself to be better and more important than others due to one's position, popularity, wealth, appearance, etc.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Hanar Codex entry:All hanar have two names. The Face Name is known to the world; the Soul Name is kept for use among close friends and relations. Hanar never refer to themselves in the first person in conversation with someone they know on a Face Name basis. To do so is considered egotistical, so instead they refer to themselves as "this one", or the impersonal "it".
- (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egoistical (advocating egoism).
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tending to talk excessively about oneself
believing oneself to be better and more important than others
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