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Egoic vs Egocentric - What's the difference?

egoic | egocentric |

As adjectives the difference between egoic and egocentric

is that egoic is of or relating to the ego while egocentric is selfish, self-centered.

As a noun egocentric is

a person who is egocentric.

egoic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the ego.
  • * 1970 , C. S. Wallia, Toward Century 21: Technology, Society, and Human Values , Basic Books, page 307:
  • Most people most of the time experience themselves and others in one or another way that I shall call egoic .
  • * 1997 , , The Power of Now , page 102:
  • As long as the egoic mind is running your life, you cannot truly be at ease.
  • * 2001 , Edmund Husserl and Anthony J. Steinbock, Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis: Lectures on Transcendental Logic , Springer, page 16:
  • All such lived-experiences are not only modes of consciousness in general, but egoic acts; and this is what we want to make clear now.

    Antonyms

    * nonegoic

    Derived terms

    * egoically

    egocentric

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • selfish, self-centered
  • Egotistical.
  • Relating to spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on one's own location within the environment (as when giving the direction as "right" rather than "north"); opposed to allocentric.
  • Anagrams

    * geocentric

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is egocentric.