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Associations of "Centered" (30 Words)
arbitrarily | Without restraint in the use of authority; autocratically. Recurrent infection is arbitrarily defined as three or more infections a year. |
center | The person who plays center on a basketball team. It is in the center of town. |
clannish | Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior. Clannish loyalty. |
conceit | The trait of being unduly vain and conceited false pride. The architect s brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree. |
conceited | Excessively proud of oneself; vain. An attitude of self conceited arrogance. |
covetousness | Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins. |
ego | A person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance. He needed a boost to his ego. |
egocentric | An egocentric person. Egocentric spatial perception. |
egocentrism | Concern for your own interests and welfare. |
egoism | An ethical theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of morality. |
egoist | A self-centered person with little regard for others. |
egotism | The fact of being excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself. In his arrogance and egotism he underestimated Gill. |
egotist | A person who is excessively conceited or absorbed in themselves; a self-seeker. He is a self absorbed egotist. |
grasping | Avaricious; greedy. Grasping commercialism. |
greed | Intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. Greed has taken over football. |
grumpy | Annoyed and irritable. He s grumpy because he hasn t heard from you. |
haughtiness | Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors. Her air of haughtiness. |
hedonism | The pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle. |
hubris | (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. The self assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s. |
independent | An independent person or body. Independent television. |
individualist | A person who pursues independent thought or action. Individualist capitalism. |
individualistic | More interested in individual people than in society as a whole. Her work is quirky and genuinely individualistic. |
narcissism | Selfishness, involving a sense of entitlement, a lack of empathy, and a need for admiration, as characterizing a personality type. |
possessive | A possessive word or form. He placed a firm possessive hand on her elbow. |
pride | A feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired. I went to pride as a teenager before I was ready to come out. |
self | Self pollinate self fertilize. To love in an unpossessive way implies the total surrender of self. |
selfish | (of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for other people; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure. I joined them for selfish reasons. |
selfishness | Stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others. An act of pure selfishness. |
stingy | Unwilling to spend. She practices economy without being stingy. |
vanity | Denoting a person or company publishing works at the author’s expense. It flattered his vanity to think I was in love with him. |