narcissism
pronunciation
How to pronounce narcissism in British English:
UK [ˈnɑːsɪsɪzəm]
How to pronounce narcissism in American English:
US [ˈnɑːrsɪsɪzəm]
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- Noun:
- an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself
Word Origin
- narcissism (n.)
- 1905, from German Narzissismus, coined 1899 (in "Die sexuellen Perversitäten"), by German psychiatrist Paul Näcke (1851-1913), on a comparison suggested 1898 by Havelock Ellis, from Greek Narkissos, name of a beautiful youth in mythology (Ovid, "Metamorphoses," iii.370) who fell in love with his own reflection in a spring and was turned to the flower narcissus (q.v.). Coleridge used the word in a letter from 1822. 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] Sometimes erroneously as narcism.
Example
- 1. All social media involve a mixture of narcissism and voyeurism .
- 2. And so body-art narcissism takes place mainly among other tattooed men .
- 3. Another form of narcissism is victimization .
- 4. But can they measure our narcissism ?
- 5. Do you think narcissism is something of a growing 21st century problem ?