egocentricity , also: egocentrism

And I had no real wish to avoid egocentricity.

"Unchecked egocentricity is a major source of failure," he remarked.

With respect to the developing individual, a movement takes place from egocentricity to sociality during the process of growing up.

Why must someone like Avril touch that beautiful vision with her sour egocentricity?

"It may not be until adolescence that children can overcome their egocentricity enough to respect the privacy of others."

I only mention macro photography not out of egocentricity, because that is my chosen approach.

Piaget was concerned with two aspects of egocentricity in children; language and morality.

"I don't have a lot of patience for stupidity and egocentricity.

I was cold inside, chilled by his amoral egocentricity.

It is all sheer egocentricity: the myth of self triumphant over destiny!

Will Tom's egocentricity - his pride, to give his sin a name - lead him to another fall?

Also, it can display the character's eccentricity or egocentricity.

Throughout the novel it seems as if no character can find true love or escape the destructiveness of their own egocentricity.

It was the height of egocentricity, she decided, to become as possessive as all that.

'It's egocentricity of that order which has pushed humanity up the scale.

He has to give up his egocentricity and develop the beginnings of a more altruistic point of view.

Statistics like that are just assumed by New Yorkers out of sheer egocentricity.

This semantic egocentricity correlates to the way Caucasians perceive other ethnic groups.

I don't know anybody who has a good neurological explanation for it, but clearly there's real egocentricity, especially in early adolescence.

He went to Africa "to have a perspective on the world outside European egocentricity," he said.

The normal egocentricity of young children often leads to misbehavior that evokes unwanted responses from others.

"I'll agree to vanity, along with arrogance, egocentricity, elitism, whatever you wish.

Usually these cost over runs are due to their incompetence in initially designing the system and project management to say nothing about Ministerial egocentricity.

But he knew her so well: the love of knowledge; the attraction to power; the egocentricity that blinded her to failure.

It stimulates egocentricity, social exclusion, a blurring of moral standards and moral decay.