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Egoic vs Egoistic - What's the difference?

egoic | egoistic |

As adjectives the difference between egoic and egoistic

is that egoic is of or relating to the ego while egoistic is egoistical.

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

    egoistic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Egoistical.
  • Egotistic.
  • Antonyms

    * altruistic * philanthropic

    Derived terms

    * egoistical

    See also

    * misanthrope * selfish