egotism
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The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism.
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According to literary historian Sacvan Bercovitch: Bercovitch 1972, p. 106 Few puritans more loudly decried the bosom serpent of egotism than did Cotton Mather; none more clearly exemplified it.
A few lines later, recalling the risks and losses of the war, he adds: "I thought of Miss Stein and Sherwood Anderson and egotism and mental laziness versus discipline and I thought 'who is calling who a lost generation?'
But she soon learned that her city lacked representation in Congress and, after spending summers on Capitol Hill, found herself put off by “many members’ unabashed egotism.”
These kinds of shallow gaslighting tactics come from a bad place of egotism and resentment, rather than any sincere and genuine attempt to help people.
His own egotism protects him from feeling passion for anyone else.
Quoted in Fisher, p. 272 The usual argument is that Hancock’s mixture of egotism and self-doubt led to a spiral of self-destructiveness.