egoic

English

Etymology

From ego +‎ -ic.

Adjective

egoic (comparative more egoic, superlative most egoic)

1. 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, Eckhart Tolle, 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, 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

• anegoic
• egoically