The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
EGOISM
egoism, egocentrism, self-interest, self-concern, self-centeredness
(noun) concern for your own interests and welfare
egoism
(noun) (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare in the basis of morality
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
egoism (countable and uncountable, plural egoisms)
The tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind.
(ethics) The belief that moral behavior should be directed toward one's self-interest only.
(nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egotism.
Synonyms
• (tendency to think of self): selfishness
Antonyms
• (tendency to think of self): altruism
Anagrams
• gomesi
Source: Wiktionary
E"go*ism, n. Etym: [F. égoïsme, fr. L. -ego I. See I, and cf. Egotism.]
1. (Philos.)
Definition: 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. Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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