egoism

As nouns the difference between egoism and individual

is that egoism is while individual is a person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.

As an adjective individual is

relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.

As a noun egoism

is .

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

In ethics terms the difference between emotivism and egoism

is that emotivism is the meta-ethical stance that ethical judgments, such as those containing the words "should" and "ought to", are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives meant to change the attitudes and actions of another while egoism is the belief that moral behavior should be directed toward one's self-interest only.

As an adjective bumptious

is obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.

As a noun egoism is

the tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind.

As nouns the difference between egoism and instrumentalism

is that egoism is the tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind while instrumentalism is in the philosophy of science, the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.

As nouns the difference between egoism and pragmatism

is that egoism is the tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind while pragmatism is the pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; a concentration on facts rather than emotions or ideals.

As nouns the difference between egoism and sociopath

is that egoism is the tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind while sociopath is a person with an antisocial personality disorder, exhibiting antisocial behavior that usually is the result of social and environmental factors in the person's early life.

As nouns the difference between objectivism and egoism

is that objectivism is the state of being objective while egoism is the tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind.

As nouns the difference between eudaimonism and egoism

is that eudaimonism is an alternative spelling of eudaemonism while egoism is the tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind.

As nouns the difference between kantian and egoism

is that kantian is a person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant while egoism is the tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind.

As an adjective Kantian

is of, pertaining to, or resembling the philosophical views of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).