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narcissist

[ nahr-suh-sist ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

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

Charles Krauthammer has told Fox News that President Obama is a narcissist.

Or he could be a narcissist, motivated by the glory of seeing his name in print.

She turned around and became a mother who was a complete narcissist because she had never had enough attention.

Good thing there is no chance of this baby becoming a narcissist.

Abramoff derides Senator John McCain as a “classic narcissist.”

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