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narcissistic

[ nahr-suh-sis-tik ]

adjective

  1. having an undue fascination with oneself; vain.
  2. Psychiatry. relating to, characterized by, or exhibiting narcissistic personality disorder ( def ).
  3. Psychoanalysis. tending to derive erotic gratification from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of narcissistic1

First recorded in 1915–20; narciss(ism) + -istic
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After five seasons, Penn Badgley says goodbye to the narcissistic sociopath character he portrayed in “You.”

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I don’t like supporting the narcissistic elements of him.

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But Jonas' appointment faced a backlash in right-wing circles, as in a 2020 speech he called Trump a "racist homophobe" and a "narcissistic right-winger".

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As O’Toole also observes, Trump’s anti-European animus has a potent psychosexual subtext, simultaneously rooted in right-wing American macho posturing and his own infantile sense of narcissistic injury.

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In one 2020 tweet, Schleifer accused Trump of eroding constitutional integrity “every day with every lie and every act of heedless, narcissistic corruption.”

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