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Definitions: Egocentric |
EgocentricAdjective1. Limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs. Noun1. A self-centered person with little regard for others. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: EgocentricSynonyms: egoistical (adj), self-centered (adj), self-centred (adj), egoist (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Egocentric |
| Non-English Usage: "Egocentric" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (egocentric, egotist, i, self centred). |
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Katharine Hepburn | It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. |
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| "Egocentric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.39% of the time. "Egocentric" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.39% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "egocentric": non-egocentric. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
egocentric | 11 |
egocentric predicament | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "egocentric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | egoistik (egoistic, self-interested), egocentrik (self centered, self centred, self-absorbed). (various references) | |
Arabic | أنوي, أناني (asocial, egoist, egoistic, greedy, hoggish, self centered, self centred, selfish). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | егоцентричен (narrow, self centered, self centred). (various references) | |
Chinese | 自我中心 (self-centered, self-centeredness, Self-centering, self-centred). (various references) | |
Czech | egocentrický (self centered). (various references) | |
Dutch | krekel (cricket, egocentric effeminate child). (various references) | |
Farsi | خودپسندی , خودمدار, خودبین (Arrogant, Presumptuous, Smug, Vain). (various references) | |
Finnish | itsekeskeinen (self-centred). (various references) | |
French | égocentrique (egomania). (various references) | |
German | egozentrisch (egocentrically, self centered). (various references) | |
Greek | εγωκεντρικόσ (self centered, self centred). (various references) | |
Hebrew | א'וצ טרי, א וכיי (egoist, egotist). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egocentrikus (egomaniac, self centered, self-centered), önző (assertive, egotist, politics, self-centered). (various references) | |
Indonesian | egosentris (self-centered). (various references) | |
Italian | egocentrico (egotist, self centered, self-absorbed, self-centered person). (various references) | |
Manx | hene-veanagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egocentricay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | eu (I am, self). (various references) | |
Romanian | egocentric (egotist, i, self centred). (various references) | |
Russian | эгоцентрический. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | egocentričan. (various references) | |
Spanish | egocéntrico (self centered, self centred). (various references) | |
Swedish | egocentrisk (egotistic, egotistical, self centred), egocentriker (egotist), jagbetonad. (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้ที่เห็นแก่ตัว, ซึ่งเห็นแก่ตัว. (various references) | |
Turkish | sadece kendini merkez alan, benci, ben merkezci. (various references) | |
Ukranian | егоїстичний (appropriate, egoistic, egoistical, hoggish, self centered, self centred, selfish), егоцентрист, егоцентричний (self centered, self centred). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cho mình l trọng tâm vị trí, ích kỷ (dog, egoistic, egoistical, self-interested, selfish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "egocentric": egocentrically, egocentricities, egocentricity, egocentrics. (additional references) | |
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"Egocentric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecocentric, ecogenetic, eogenetic, ergocentric, igocentric. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "egocentric" (pronounced ē'gōse"ntrik) |
| 8 | -ō s e" n t r i k | ethnocentric, geocentric. |
| 7 | -s e" n t r i k | anthropocentric, concentric, eccentric. |
| 5 | -n t r i k | tantric. |
| 4 | -t r i k | barometric, citric, dissymmetric, econometric, electric, gastric, geometric, geriatric, gravimetric, hydroelectric, metric, nitric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, pediatric, photoelectric, psychiatric, vitric. |
| 3 | -r i k | alphanumeric, atmospheric, Baldric, barbaric, boric, caloric, choric, cleric, Derrick, esoteric, euphoric, fabric, generic, hemispheric, historic, hyperbaric, hysteric, ionospheric, lyric, mercuric, mesenteric, meteoric, numeric, pinprick, prehistoric, pyrrhic, rubric, satiric, sophomoric, stearic, stratospheric, sulfuric, vampiric. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: coerecting, geocentric. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-g-i-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: concierge. | |
-2 letters: cicerone, coercing, concerti, concrete, croceine, erecting, erection, erogenic, gentrice, gerontic, necrotic, neoteric. | |
-3 letters: centric, cerotic, cicoree, coerect, cointer, conceit, concert, coreign, cornice, cortege, coterie, crocein, crocine, eccrine, enteric, enticer, ergotic, generic, genetic, genitor, integer, noticer, orectic, treeing. | |
-4 letters: cenote, center, centre, cering, cerite, cicero, citron, coerce, cogent, coigne, coiner, congee, conger, coring, cornet, cortin, coting, cretic, cretin, cringe, encore, engirt, entice, entire, eringo, erotic, gerent, goiter, goitre, ignore, noetic, norite, notice, orcein, orient, recent, recite, recoin, regent, region, retine, teeing, tenrec, tierce, toeing, tonger, tonier, triene, trigon. | |
-5 letters: cento, cerci, ceric, citer, coign, conge, conic, conte, corgi, croci, crone, egret, enter, erect, ergot, genet, genic, genie, genre, genro, giron, goner, green, greet, griot, groin, incog, inert, ingot, inter, intro, irone, nicer, niece, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, ontic, orcin, orgic, recce, recon, recti, recto, reign, renig, rente, retie, tenge, tenor, terce, terne, tiger, tigon, tinge, toner, tonic, toric, treen, trice, trigo, trine, trone. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-g-i-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: egocentrics. | |
+2 letters: concentering, electrogenic, recollecting, reconnecting. | |
+3 letters: egocentricity, electrocuting, preconcerting. | |
+4 letters: concelebrating, deconsecrating, egocentrically, geocentrically, gerontocracies, overcorrecting, reconsecrating. | |
+5 letters: counterchecking, deconcentrating, egocentricities, electromagnetic, interconnecting, magnetoelectric, reconcentrating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 67 6F 63 65 6E 74 72 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). --. --- -.-. . -. - .-. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100111 01101111 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E g o c e n t r i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0067 006F 0063 0065 006E 0074 0072 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39738169718086847569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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