egotist

ego + -t- inserted to avoid hiatus, or after the analogy of dramatist, epigrammatist, etc. +‎ -ist

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egotist (plural egotists)

1. A person who talks excessively about themselves.
2. A person who believes in their own importance or superiority.
3. (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) An egoist (advocate of egoism).

• egotistic

• egotism
• egotistical

• “egotist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “egotist”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• geitost

Borrowed from French égotiste.

egotist m or n (feminine singular egotistă, masculine plural egotiști, feminine and neuter plural egotiste)

1. egotistical