adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fox plays an egocentric movie star.
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He was a man of undoubted genius, but bad-tempered, egocentric , and impossible to live with.
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Older children are less egocentric than younger ones, and more willing to accept other people's ideas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Still, the egocentric child typically lacks any appreciation or knowledge of the game from a social point of view.
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The earlier humanitarian Ahab no longer concerns himself with humanity but devotes himself to his own egocentric desires.
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The most extreme form of dramatic playing would be egocentric play.
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The sensorimotor child is initially egocentric in that he lacks differentiation between the self as an object and other objects.
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With this awareness, children begin to accommodate to others, and egocentric thought begins to give way to social pressure.
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Young children's egocentric behaviour is assimilation since they are incapable of seeing anything except from their own point of view.