as in selfness
excessive interest in oneself
in his narcissism, he just assumed that everyone else wanted to hear the tiny details of his day
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Recent Examples of narcissism
Glinda’s hair flips and knee-jerk narcissism lack the necessary conviction.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
The benefits of both jobs, at least on an armchair-psychology level, involve a mix of duty and narcissism—someone has to thanklessly call balls and strikes, someone needs to go to a city-hall meeting and write up what the mayor said.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
Gratitude is the opposite of selfishness, egotism, avarice or narcissism.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
Is narcissism genetic?Narcissists are made, not born.
—Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
The benefits of both jobs, at least on an armchair-psychology level, involve a mix of duty and narcissism—someone has to thanklessly call balls and strikes, someone needs to go to a city-hall meeting and write up what the mayor said.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
Gratitude is the opposite of selfishness, egotism, avarice or narcissism.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
Is narcissism genetic?Narcissists are made, not born.
—Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for narcissism
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His selfishness ran counterintuitive to the label’s ethos, which Faith Evans described as being familial.Jayson Rodriguez, Variety, 18 Nov. 2024
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But that would just be a less destructive version of Bezos’s selfishness.Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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The bathroom itself looks a lot like its counterpart and has a shower, a small vanity sink, and a flushing toilet, as well as some more storage.Adam Williams, New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2024
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Here, garland drapes over each medicine cabinet and fills a small bowl on the vanity top, adding punches of color and festivity without being too literal.Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2024
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The mentors who called you out, the lessons that battered your ego.Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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After surviving the Holocaust, a Hungarian Jewish architect (Adrien Brody) comes to America and is commissioned by an industrialist (Guy Pearce) to build a community center, while trying to bring his wife (Felicity Jones) over from Europe and weathering his own ego and vices.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Other simulations have relied on personality trait theory, which holds that people have varying levels of psychoticism (aggression and egocentrism), extraversion (associated with more daring behaviors) and neuroticism (linked to anxiety and shyness).Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
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The common traits here are a lack of empathy and egocentrism.Ana Reed, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
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There are early indications that Biden’s mishandling of classified documents is rooted in error rather than corruption or egomania.Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2023
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The hour climaxed with Bob Odenkirk winning an Emmy, probably, with a burst of florid hallway egomania.Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2020
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But Headland’s play distinguishes itself from the others by investigating these confrontations alongside pride: How does this sin, defined by blinding self-absorption and lack of humility, distort the Dahls’ love?Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
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But that feckless self-absorption is rerouted, if not extinguished, by a chance sighting of local resident Charlotte (Alison Pill).Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
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Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
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Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information, Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
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“Narcissism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narcissism. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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