English Explanatory Dictionary

culte du moi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The cult of the ego; ego worship.

Word forms

culte du moi

Etymology

Borrowed from French culte du moi (“cult of the me”). Introduced by the homme de lettres Maurice Barrès (1862–1923) in his homonymous book trilogy (1888–1891), in English entitled The Cult of the Self.

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