Self-centered means seeing everything only in relation to your own concerns. A self-centered attitude.
Other people barely register, which is what separates it from merely selfish. A self-centered person is often perfectly generous and still hears nothing you say.
1adjectiveself-centeredSeeing everything only in relation to your own concerns, so that other people barely register.
“The self-centered account left out everybody else in the room.”
self-centered is a quality.
Also accepted in games: self-centred
Middle English
self
English
self
English, today
self-centered
From self- + centered. self comes from Middle English self. From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European selbʰ- (“one's own”). 2
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