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Definition of Narcissism

1. Noun. An exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself. "Self-love that shut out everyone else"

Definition of Narcissism

1. Noun. Excessive love of oneself. ¹

2. Noun. Sexual desire for one's own body. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Narcissism

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Medical Definition of Narcissism

1. A psychoanalytic term meaning self-love. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Narcissism

Literary usage of Narcissism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"Homosexuality.—Sexual desire for the same sex. narcissism.—A form of auto-erotic sexuality in which a person is love with himself—his own body or someone ..."

2. Problems in Dynamic Psychology: A Critique of Psychoanalysis and Suggested by John Thompson MacCurdy (1922)
"how are the concepts of narcissism and egoism to be differentiated TI think we can put it that narcissism is a libidinous inflation of egoism. ..."

3. Psycho-analysis and the War Neuroses by Sándor Ferenczi (1921)
"Their sexual and social capacity of functioning was dependent on their making certain concessions to their narcissism. In the war these men were placed ..."

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