Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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egoism

/ˈi.ɡoʊˌɪ.zəm/ noun

Forms egoisms egomism

  1. noun The tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind.
  2. noun (ethics) The belief that moral behavior should be directed toward one's self-interest only.
  3. noun (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egotism (tendency to talk excessively about oneself).

Synonyms

egocentricity selfishness solipsism egomism hoggery interestedness me-firstism philauty porkishness selfhood self-absorption self-centeredness self-interestedness self-obsession self-servingness suicism egocentrism self-interest self-concern

Antonyms

altruism

Etymology

From French égoïsme, from New Latin egoismus, from Latin ego. By surface analysis, ego + -ism.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.
  2. noun Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; --opposed to altruism.

Etymology [F. égoïsme, fr. L. -ego I. See I, and cf. Egotism.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “egoism”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details