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nar⋅cis⋅sism

  [nahr-suh-siz-em]
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–noun
1. inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.
2. Psychoanalysis. erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.
Also, nar⋅cism  [nahr-siz-uhm] .

Origin:
1815–25; < G Narzissismus. See narcissus, -ism

Related forms:
nar⋅cis⋅sist, narcist, noun
nar⋅cis⋅sis⋅tic, nar⋅cis⋅tic, adjective

Synonyms:
1. self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
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nar·cis·sism   (när'sĭ-sĭz'əm)   
n.  

  1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself. See Synonyms at conceit.

  2. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.

  3. Erotic pleasure derived from contemplation or admiration of one's own body or self, especially as a fixation on or a regression to an infantile stage of development.

  4. The attribute of the human psyche charactized by admiration of oneself but within normal limits.


[After Narcissus.]
nar'cis·sist n., nar'cis·sis'tic adj., nar'cis·sis'ti·cal·ly adv.
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Cultural Dictionary

narcissism [(nahr-suh-siz-uhm)]

A consuming self-absorption or self-love; a type of egotism. Narcissists constantly assess their appearance, desires, feelings, and abilities.

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Word Origin & History

narcissism 
1905, from Ger. Narzissismus, coined 1899 by Näcke [in "Die sexuellen Perversitäten"], on a comparison first suggested 1898 by Havelock Ellis, from Gk. Narkissos, beautiful youth in mythology (Ovid, "Metamorphosis," iii.370) who fell in love with his own reflection in a spring and was turned to the flower narcissus (q.v.). First record of narcissistic is from 1916; narcissist is from 1930.
But already Krishna, enamoured of himself, had resolved to experience lust for his own self; he manifested his own Nature in the cow-herd girls and enjoyed them." [Karapatri, "Lingopasana-rahasya," Siddhanta, II, 1941-2]
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: nar·cism
Pronunciation: 'när-"siz-&m
Function: noun
: NARCISSISM
Narácisásus /när-'sis-&s/, Greek mythological character. Narcissus was a youth of renowned beauty. Transfixed by his own beauty, hecontemplated his reflection in a pool of water. The more he looked, the more he liked what he saw. Held captive by his self-love, he never strayed from the pool, but gradually wasted away and died. Thegods then transformed him into the flower which is now called narcissus after him.

Main Entry: nar·cis·sism
Pronunciation: 'när-s&-"siz-&m
Function: noun
1 : love of or sexual desire for one's own body
2 : the state or stage of development in which there is considerable erotic interest in one's own body and ego and which in abnormal forms persists through fixation or reappearsthrough regression
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Medical Dictionary

narcissism nar·cis·sism (när'sĭ-sĭz'əm) or nar·cism (när'sĭz'əm)
n.

  1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself.

  2. Erotic pleasure derived from contemplation or admiration of one's own body or self, especially as a fixation on or a regression to an infantile stage of development.

nar'cis·sist n.
nar'cis·sis'tic adj.
nar'cis·sis'ti·cal·ly adv.

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