Egotism

Egotism is defined as the drive to maintains and modernizing favorable views of oneself as alive as generally attaches an inflated abstraction of one's personal features as well as importance distinguished by the person's amplified vision of one's self and self-importance. It often includes intellectual, physical, social, and other overestimations. The egotist has an overwhelming sense of the centrality of the "me" regarding their personal qualities.

Social egotism

Leo Tolstoy, used the term aduyevschina after the protagonist Aduyev of Goncharov's first novel, A Common Story to describe social egotism as the inability of some people to see beyond their immediate interests.