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Realistic vs Egocentric - What's the difference?

realistic | egocentric |

As adjectives the difference between realistic and egocentric

is that realistic is expressed or represented as being accurate while egocentric is selfish, self-centered.

As a noun egocentric is

a person who is egocentric.

realistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Expressed or represented as being accurate.
  • A ''realistic'' appraisal of the situation.
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  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.}}
  • Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.
  • A ''realistic'' novel about the Victorian poor.

    Antonyms

    * unrealistic * utopian

    Derived terms

    * realisticity * realisticness

    Anagrams

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    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.