Egotism is the
drive to sustain and improve positive views of oneself, and usually features an
inflated attitude of one's personal traits and significance — intellectual,
physical, social and other.
The egotist has an
irresistible sense of the centrality of the 'Me': of their personal qualities. Egotism
means placing oneself at the core of one's world with no anxiety for others,
together with those loved or considered as "close," in any other
conditions except for those set by the egotist.
Egotism is
strongly related to "loving one's self" or narcissism - certainly
some would say: by egotism we may imagine a kind of socialized narcissism. Egotists
have a strong tendency to speak about themselves in a self-promoting fashion,
and they may well be superior and boastful with a extravagant sense of their
own significance.
