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Egoic vs Egotistical - What's the difference?

egoic | egotistical |

As adjectives the difference between egoic and egotistical

is that egoic is of or relating to the ego while egotistical is tending to talk excessively about oneself.

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

    egotistical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to talk excessively about oneself.
  • Believing oneself to be better and more important than others.
  • Egoistical.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * (l)