Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.