narcissistic

adjective

nar·cis·sis·tic ˌnär-sə-ˈsi-stik

: of, relating to, or characterized by narcissism: such as

: extremely self-centered with an exaggerated sense of self-importance : marked by or characteristic of excessive admiration of or infatuation with oneself

a narcissistic personality

He was a very narcissistic man, not too concerned with the world.—

Oliver Sacks

But when a mother's narcissistic needs are so great that she cannot relate to her child as he really is, she loves her child as a self-object—that is, as someone put on this earth to meet her needs.—

Sue Erikson Bloland

see also narcissistic personality disorder

: displaying or marked by excessive concern with one's own physical appearance

… she describes the bind created for women by the judgment that a woman preoccupied with her looks is narcissistic and a woman who is not is unfeminine.—

Carol Gilligan

Our narcissistic culture has turned us into a nation of body-image "junkies" using everything in our power to carve, reshape, remold, and recast our bodies' natural shapes and processes so that they are better fitted to our desires.—

Andrew Kimbrell

Examples of narcissistic in a Sentence

trying to raise the social consciousness of the normally narcissistic Hollywood community

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Lithgow makes Jim a foul-mouthed rebel, a reactionary against movements for non-binary and bisexual visibility, a promiscuous flirt, a narcissistic father, and a loving grandfather. —

Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025 The film starts as a riff on codependent relationships and a narcissistic man-child who nevertheless gets everyone around him to do his bidding, but as the plot swerves in one direction after the other, the satire gets lost. —

Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 2 Feb. 2025 The American people deserve real answers, not narcissistic speculations. —

Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025 The two-time Oscar nominee delivers another unhinged performance for which he’s become known, channeling his inner pop star with some help from his inner psycho as the narcissistic Moretti, whose avant-garde style is as big as his god complex. —

Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for narcissistic