What is the difference between egoist and egotist?

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What is the difference between egoist and egotist?

Answer 1

its just golf.. one has an extra T

Answer 2

An egoist, is someone with a philosophical self-involvement amounting to egoism.

Egoism may refer to any of the following:

- psychological egoism - the doctrine that holds that individuals are motivated by self-interest.

- ethical egoism - the ethical doctrine that holds that individuals ought to do what is in their self-interest

- rational egoism - the belief that it is rational to act in one's self-interest

- solipsism - sometimes called egoism - the belief that only one's self exists, or that only the experiences of one's self can be verified

- egotism - an excessive or exaggerated sense of self-importance. In extreme forms, egoism (as egotism) may include narcissism and antisocial behavior.

Whereas an egotist, is a person with the fault of selfishness.

Answer 3

Check Webster's Dictionary

Answer 4

EGOIST-e·go·ist [gō ist, éggō ist]

(plural e·go·ists)

noun

1.  believer in egoism: somebody who believes that the correct basis for morality is self-interest

2.  Same as egotist (sense 1)  

EGOTIST- ·go·tist [gətist, éggətist]

(plural e·go·tists)

noun

1.  conceited person: somebody with an exaggerated sense of his or her own importance, especially somebody who tends to speak or write about himself or herself excessively

2.  selfish person: somebody who is selfish or self-centered