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• n  an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
• n  an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

• Enemies accused him of monumental egotism, and most admirers, foreseeing his defeat, were worried that posterity would frown on his quest for an unprecedented third term.
• Instantly you feel a bit of your own egotism fall away, and, despite yourself, the presence of humility is felt deep inside.
• There has been almost universal admiration, even a touch of envy, but there are people who regard his entrepreneurialism and reported egotism as suspect.

• self-importance
• swelled head
• ego

News & Articles

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• Living With Cancer: Is It Back?
  The tunnel vision of cancer focuses me obsessively on myself. Perhaps all diseases bring egotism in their wake, for people in distress find it hard to think of anything else.        
  Aug. 29, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Matthias Sammer in The Associated Press
  Matthias Sammer, the sports director of the German federation, told Spiegel magazine: "A lack of discipline and egotism can be discerned in Kevin-Prince. When it comes to his athletic and mental constitution, Jerome is the stronger player."
• Julie Christie in San Francisco Chronicle
  It's been a kind of greed and a kind of egotism, but it's not necessarily wanting to avoid the Hollywood thing, but in fact, it incorporates wanting to avoid the Hollywood thing, because the Hollywood thing is so inevitably not original,...
• Ramon Calderon in Forbes
  Calderon said Madrid's players displayed "egotism and vanity," were uncultured and believed they were all "superstars."