Definition of "self-centered"

self-centered

adjective
comparative more self-centered, superlative most self-centered
1. Egotistically obsessed with oneself.
2. Concerned or relating to the self, and not necessarily the greater good of one's group, community, tribe, etc.; individualistic.
  Quotations
  [A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action.
  1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165