as in selfness
excessive interest in oneself
in his narcissism, he just assumed that everyone else wanted to hear the tiny details of his day
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Recent Examples of narcissism
In the case of Fellini’s achievement, is someone going to produce a more harrowing portrait of the self-deluding toxicity of male narcissism?
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Jim Shepard, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
There's some research that finds narcissism can improve.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
Sweeney complicates these questions by letting audiences in on certain details other characters don’t know, asking us to root for someone whose profound loneliness and insecurity feeds an unhealthy narcissism (and whose constantly shifting likability Sweeney manages by playing that person himself).
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Patience is indeed a virtue, but a whiff of narcissism arises when commentators extoll it in others, like a husband praising an adoring wife.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Jim Shepard, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
There's some research that finds narcissism can improve.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
Sweeney complicates these questions by letting audiences in on certain details other characters don’t know, asking us to root for someone whose profound loneliness and insecurity feeds an unhealthy narcissism (and whose constantly shifting likability Sweeney manages by playing that person himself).
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Patience is indeed a virtue, but a whiff of narcissism arises when commentators extoll it in others, like a husband praising an adoring wife.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for narcissism
Noun
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The film’s underlying suggestion that spies are just as susceptible to selfishness, prone to mistakes, and likely to lie as anyone lines up nicely with some of the revelations brought to light during the George W. Bush years, and little that’s happened since has made the movie seem less insightful.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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His touring feels like a shield against that selfishness, an investment in a connection with his fellow Americans.—
Ismail Muhammad,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Tiny Solar Homes The bathroom is nearby and contains a shower, vanity sink, and a flushing toilet.—
Adam Williams,
New Atlas,
13 Mar. 2025
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The resurgence of popular beauty looks of decades past comes at no surprise to those who grew up watching their mothers and grandmothers do their hair or paint their nails at their bathroom vanity.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2025
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Managing egos is unavoidable, but having to manage someone’s ego right from the start is not a positive indicator of things to come.—
Abdo Riani,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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But how did egos not get in the way, especially after the seasons Prince and Conner had in 2023?—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Mar. 2025
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Other simulations have relied on personality trait theory, which holds that people have varying levels of psychoticism (aggression and egocentrism), extraversion (associated with more daring behaviors) and neuroticism (linked to anxiety and shyness).—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
4 Apr. 2022
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The common traits here are a lack of empathy and egocentrism.—
Ana Reed,
Forbes,
14 Feb. 2023
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There are early indications that Biden’s mishandling of classified documents is rooted in error rather than corruption or egomania.—
Jason Linkins,
The New Republic,
21 Jan. 2023
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The hour climaxed with Bob Odenkirk winning an Emmy, probably, with a burst of florid hallway egomania.—
Darren Franich,
EW.com,
7 Apr. 2020
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In the view of Georgie’s daughter, Suke Wolton, who teaches politics at Oxford, her late mother found Foster’s self-absorption a little hard to take.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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But that feckless self-absorption is rerouted, if not extinguished, by a chance sighting of local resident Charlotte (Alison Pill).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
13 Dec. 2024
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Trump’s slogans—America First and Make America Great Again—embody the essence of populism, namely using ideology to advance a political program that is morally unconstrained and driven by collective egoism.—
BÁLINT MADLOVICS,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2025
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Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2024
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“Narcissism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narcissism. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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