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narcissist

[ nahr-suh-sist ]

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noun

a person who is overly self-involved, and often vain and selfish.
Psychiatry. a person who has narcissistic personality disorder ( def ).
Psychoanalysis. a person who experiences or exhibits narcissism, deriving erotic gratification from admiration of their own physical or mental attributes.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of narcissist¹

First recorded in 1915–20; narciss(ism) + -ist

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Trump has always been a narcissist but it has now become full-blown megalomania.

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Trump, on the other hand, made himself vulnerable to this manipulation by being a childish narcissist who will give the world to anyone who fawns over him.

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Personally, I think Trump is tanking the economy on purpose, because he's a narcissist who has decided to punish Americans for failing to show him the deference he feels he deserves.

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That seems to tie into your reference to psychopaths, as well as extreme narcissists.

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Pitchfork's Alphonse Pierre, however, was scathing, lambasting "a desperate album from one of rap's most notorious narcissists".

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