English-Thai Dictionary

egoism

N ลัทธิ อัตตา  ความเห็นแก่ตัว  egotism selfishness

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EGOISM

E "go *ism, n. Etym: [F. égoïsme, fr. L. -ego I. See I, and cf. Egotism. ]

 

1. (Philos.)

 

Defn: The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.

 

2. Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

egoism

e go ism |ˈēgōˌizəm ˈiɡoʊˌɪzəm | ▶noun Ethics an ethical theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of morality. • another term for egotism. DERIVATIVES e go ist noun, e go is tic |-ˈistik |adjective, e go is ti cal |-ˈistikəl |adjective, e go is ti cal ly |-ˈistik (ə )lē |adverb ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French égoïsme and modern Latin egoismus, from Latin ego ‘I. ’ usage: The words egoism and egotism are frequently confused, as though interchangeable, but there are distinctions worth noting. Both words derive from Latin ego (‘I ’), the first-person singular pronoun. Egotism, the more commonly used term, denotes an excessive sense of self-importance, too-frequent use of the word ‘I,’ and general arrogance and boastfulness. Egoism, a more subtle term, is perhaps best left to ethicists, for whom it denotes a view or theory of moral behavior in which self-interest is the root of moral conduct. An egoist, then, might devote considerable attention to introspection, but could be modest about it, whereas an egotist would have an exaggerated sense of the importance of his or her self-analysis, and would have to tell everyone.

 

Oxford Dictionary

egoism

egoism |ˈɛgəʊɪz (ə )m, ˈiː -| ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 another term for egotism. 2 Philosophy an ethical theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of morality. DERIVATIVES egoist noun, egoistic |-ˈɪstɪk |adjective, egoistical |-ˈɪstɪk (ə )l |adjective, egoistically |-ˈɪstɪk (ə )li |adverb ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French égoïsme and modern Latin egoismus, from Latin ego ‘I ’. usage: The words egoism and egotism are frequently treated as interchangeable, but there are distinctions which are worth noting. Egotism, the more commonly used term, means ‘the fact of being excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself ’. Strictly speaking, egoism is a term used in Ethics to mean ‘a theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of moral behaviour ’, although this sense is not dominant today; around 90 per cent of the citations for egoism in the Oxford English Corpus are for the meaning ‘excessive conceit ’.

 

Duden Dictionary

Egoismus

Ego is mus Substantiv, maskulin , der |Ego i smus |der Egoismus; Genitiv: des Egoismus, Plural: die Egoismen französisch égoïsme, zu lateinisch ego = ich 1 a ohne Plural [Haltung, die gekennzeichnet ist durch das ] Streben nach Erlangung von Vorteilen für die eigene Person, nach Erfüllung der die eigene Person betreffenden Wünsche ohne Rücksicht auf die Ansprüche anderer; Selbstsucht, Ichsucht, Eigenliebe reiner, krasser Egoismus | etwas aus [gesundem ] Egoismus tun b ohne Plural Philosophie Lehre, Anschauung, nach der alles, auch das altruistische Handeln, auf Selbstliebe beruht 2 Pluraletantum egoistische Verhaltensweisen persönliche Egoismen und Eitelkeiten

 

French Dictionary

égoïsme

égoïsme n. m. nom masculin Amour excessif de soi, recherche de son seul plaisir et de son seul intérêt. ANTONYME générosité . Note Orthographique égo ï sme.

 

Spanish Dictionary

egoísmo

egoísmo nombre masculino 1 Actitud o comportamiento de la persona egoísta :su actitud se convirtió en manifestación de egoísmo y represión; el ocio para los griegos era la escuela de libertad, la fiesta de belleza, de desprendimiento, donde uno se abandona hacia lo mejor y se retrae del egoísmo y de la competitividad que el trabajo diario supone .2 Acto egoísta :hay que impedir que se construya una muralla de conservación de los egoísmos nacionales .ETIMOLOGÍA Préstamo (s. xix ) del francés egoïsme, formado con el pronombre latino ego ‘yo ’.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

egoism

é go ì sm 名詞 ＝egotism .