Egocentricの例文や意味・使い方に関するQ&A

A: That you're focused on yourself. Everything centers itself around you.

A: self-centred

A: Example: he just thinks about himself, is really egocentric

A: "He is so egocentric"

"You are very egocentric."

A: I couldn't work with John because he was much too egocentric.

The politician's egocentric personality made him lose the election.

A: - **Egocentric** focuses on the perspective from which one views the world, often lacking empathy or understanding of others' viewpoints.

- **Egotistic** points more to a self-centered nature where one's own desires and achievements are paramount, but without the necessary negative connotation of being boastful.

- **Egotistical** encompasses the self-centeredness of egotistic behavior but adds the dimension of overt self-promotion and a desire for recognition or admiration, which can make it more socially unappealing.

A: You can use both interchangeably to describe something or someone because they are both adjectives. They are synonyms or words that have the same meaning and so either one is acceptable. "Selfish" though, is used more often than "egocentric"

A: I think they're pretty much interchangeable in normal conversation.

"Egocentric" has another (similar) meaning in science and psychology, it means being literally unable to distinguish between yourself and other people, or understand other people's perspectives. Small children are "egocentric" in this way.