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Narcissistic Definition

  • characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance
    synonyms:egotistic, egotistical, self-loving

Sentence Examples

Narcissists are not pragmatic.

Are all politicians narcissists?

Most narcissists are opportunistic and ruthless operators.

Actually, being feared, or derided is also narcissistic supply.

His true, narcissistic, face is exposed and it is hideous to behold.

Lasch wrote: "The new narcissist is haunted not by guilt but by anxiety."

But social and religious codes curbed the most narcissistic of kings and conquerors.

The emphasis has shifted from narcissistic posturing to economic survival and prosperity.

In contradistinction to the object-libido we also call the ego-libido narcissistic libido.

"Blent's a lady of leisure and somewhat excessively narcissistic tendencies," he explained.

He is fixed in the Narcissistic stage of his life, and is unadapted to the world of social relations.

Is it narcissistic for man's tools to use themselves as both images of the mirror of reflective analysis?

The Six Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exacerbated the narcissistic defences.

Where previously the capability of surrender (in every sense of the word) existed, now the narcissistic avarice dominates.

Moreover, narcissism is a SPECTRUM of behaviors - from the healthy to the utterly pathological (known as the Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD).