egotist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person with an exaggerated sense of their own importance who speaks or thinks excessively about themself

   The memoir's narrator is an engaging egotist who turns every event into a story about himself.

Formed from ego + -ist, with an inserted t, probably by analogy with words such as dramatist. Egotist originally emphasized excessive use of I and talk about oneself, then broadened to self-importance more generally.

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