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UK
/nˌɑːsɪsˈɪstɪk/
]
[ US /ˌnɑɹsɪˈsɪstɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌnɑɹsɪˈsɪstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance
How To Use narcissistic In A Sentence
- The narcissistic presumption of centrality that underpins paranoia here gives birth to semiotic solipsism.
- Reich 1974 placed the impulsive character, the neurotic character, and the psychopath between neurosis and psychosis and observed the ambivalence, hostile pregenital impulses, ego and superego deficits, immature defenses, and primitive narcissistic features of the impulsive personality. Clinical Work with Adolescents
- And because the kids are such "coddled," "narcissistic praise junkies," they'll be beyond tough to bring into the military. Boing Boing
- The yogi contemplating his navel often figures for Westerners as an object of amusement, being taken as a symptom of indolence or narcissistic self-absorption.
- I feel that I have not yet penetrated truly what this book is about, although it surely depicts the hapless life of someone who lives in narcissistic illusion as well as the damage wrought by others who are the same but in a different style. "To Make the Bears Dance"
- What we have in Barack Obama is the perfect blending of postmodern Marxism with therapeutic psychobabble into a royal narcissistic mishmosh. Archive 2009-03-01
- Of 32 revolutionary leaders, 23 were described as egotistical, narcissistic, and searching for personal fame and glory Rejai, 1980. The Bass Handbook of Leadership
- He later identifies that pathological disposition as a form of obsessional neurosis tinged with narcissistic tendencies.
- Intensely narcissistic people often live tumultuous lives, as few people can tolerate them for long.
- He shows himself to be an ill-mannered, thin-skinned, easily flattered narcissistic ignoramus, given to stupid jokes, banal observations, casual rudeness and hypocritical pieties.