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Self-centered

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Egotistically obsessed with oneself. US
  2. 2
    Concerned or relating to the self, and not necessarily the greater good of one's group, community, tribe, etc.; individualistic. US

    "[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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others wordnet

Etymology

From self- + centered.

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