narcissistic

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narcissistic

  • /ˌnɑː.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/ UK
  • /ˌnɑɹ.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/ US

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English narcissist

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English narcissistic

From narcissist + -ic.

adjective more narcissistic · most narcissistic

  1. Of or pertaining to the nature of narcissism.
  2. Having an inflated idea of one's own importance.
  3. Obsessed with one's own self image and ego. Anyone who goes into a voting booth on November the 8th and comes out saying, “I feel a hundred percent great about what I just did in there!,” is either lying to themselves, or did something unspeakable in that booth! And that means, as uncomfortable as this is, everyone has to own the floors of wh

noun narcissistics

  1. A narcissist. Because narcissistics cannot handle failure, they will take great lengths to avoid risks and situations in which defeat is a possibility.

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