self-involvement

noun

self-in·​volve·​ment ˌself-in-ˈvälv-mənt How to pronounce self-involvement (audio)
-ˈvȯlv-

Examples of self-involvement in a Sentence

in their self-involvement, they never noticed that one of their coworkers was on the verge of an emotional breakdown
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But when we’re made to watch Tesfaye sing it in its entirety in an unbroken close-up while crying at the beauty of his own music, the introspection turns to simple self-involvement. Charles Bramesco, IndieWire, 15 May 2025 But her apparent passiveness is not as tragic as Bin’s self-involvement. Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 9 May 2025 But there’s no monopoly on self-involvement, in my experience. James Parker, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025 At the far opposite end of the adulthood spectrum is Jeff (Alex Wolff), a floppy mess of romantic misadventures and extravagant self-involvement and possibly the world’s most distracted producer. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Too often, his method isn’t nearly as subtle or searching, and this, combined with a reflexive self-involvement, tends to rob The Message of truly resonant insight in both Senegal and Israel. Daniel Bergner, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024 The characters’ identities are just a medium for exposing their self-involvement. TIME, 2 Feb. 2024 The narcissist, instead of sprouting healthy attachments to others, remains stranded in the oceanic self-involvement of infancy. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023 But that self-involvement, for lack of a better word, doesn’t collapse into self-loathing. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 18 June 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of self-involvement was in 1860

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“Self-involvement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-involvement. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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