egoist/egotist:

(plural: ‘egoists‘/’egotists‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘go’ are said with a ‘go’ sound as in “goat”)

‘egoism’ = the quality of always thinking about one’s own self and about what is best for self, and showing this quality to others deliberately and thinking that one is better than everybody else

a person who shows egoism,

an egoist, extremely proud of himself

e.g.

Of all the professions, a teacher, whose actual job is to impart knowledge and wisdom to student and to make students selfless, is called an egoist!

Don’t you ever go Sammy for any favour; he’s a notorious egoist anyone has ever seen!

Though many of our friends say that Dolly is an egoist, I personally feel that she’s just arrogant, expressing her views openly and freely.

There is a difference between people with strong opinions and people with selfishness, and I always wonder if it is right to call those with strong opinions ‘arrogant’ and those with selfishness ‘egotists’.

Note: This word expresses a higher degree of having or showing selfishness and pride; therefore, it should not be used for expressing relatively less serious or harmful qualities of a person — less harmful or serious qualities are: being proud, headstrong, careless, boastful, etc.
For a blog post on what an egoist is, please click here, for an article on what an egoist is from different perspective, please click here, for a news article that shows us how a person being very wealthy and expressing it in term of spending it on material things can be called an egoist, please click here, for another news article that shows us how politicians, President Obama in this case, can be called an egoist, please click here and for an article which shows us how ‘egotist’ is used for ‘egoist’, please click here.

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