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/sɛlf-sˈɛntərd/ Listen

adjective

Self-centred, Self-centered adj.

Centered in itself, or in one's self. "There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved."

Interested solely or primiarily in oneself, or one's own welfare; disinclined to consider the interests of others; selfish; egotistical.

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Etymology of 'Self-centered'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Self-centered" Quotes from Famous Books

... priest, who saw in the love of God a good in itself transcending the happiness of one's own soul. He just wanted to be saved and tried to love God for that purpose with all his might. But this careful self-cultivation made his religion self-centered; it was, compared even with the professions of the Protestants and of the Jesuits, ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... read this in his burning eyes as though it were written there in cold, black, selfish letters. A deep smouldering and immoderate anger seized her. That this man who had seemed such a power of softness should so show himself to be a thing of self-centered flint, wounded her; and Jane rebelled at wounds. For the moment they stared, seemingly hypnotized; until at last her voice came as low and expressionless as his had been ...

— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... his reserve, lent him the false attitude of a rather cold, self-centered man, discouraging suggestions at first only to adopt them later in the most inexplicable fashion, and conferring favors in a ready-made impersonal manner which destroyed utterly their quality as favors. In reality his heart hungered ...

— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White

... him three old sailors huddled on the prow and a ragged boy. They were veterans of the Mediterranean, silent and self-centered, accustomed to obey orders mechanically, without troubling themselves as to where they were going, ...

— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... be sinking," he said. "I am afraid of a civil war." Dr. Franklin, according to Horace Walpole, said "he would furnish Mr. Gibbon with materials for writing the History of the Decline of the British Empire." With his country tottering, the self-centered but truthful Gibbon could not avoid mention of his personal loss, due to the fall of his patron, Lord North. "I was stripped of a convenient salary," he said, "after having enjoyed it about ...

— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes

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