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Recent Examples of narcissism In adulthood, narcissism may develop into a narcissistic personality disorder. Eddie Brummelman, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2025 Here’s my top 10 favorite examples of show biz narcissism (at least on screen). Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025 These images were created by blending the faces of real people who had scored very high or very low on traits like psychopathy, narcissism, or agreeableness. Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025 Validation, insecurity, ego, manipulation, narcissism, all these things that people told me, anger issues ... Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for narcissism
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Noun
  • Years after graduation, the harsh reality of the New York art scene sets in, and Willow’s selfishness becomes more and more apparent.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 24 June 2025
  • Are his words out of greed and selfishness or to better lives?
    Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • The Eden's bathroom is placed on the opposite side of the home to the entrance and has a toilet, a vanity sink, and a walk-in shower, plus a little more storage space.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 June 2025
  • Lean a framed print against the wall in the center of a wide vanity or on a shelf above the toilet.
    Dina Cheney, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Our state and federal politicians must insist on order and basic due process in ICE’s performance of its duties, not the chaos and confusion inherent in playing up to Trump’s enormous ego, tiny vocabulary and constantly flip-flopping orders, statements and media posts.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2025
  • These are the sorts of fantasies that cultivate the delicate, fledgling egos of the inexperienced, giving them enough hope, whether about their good fortune or their capacity to aestheticize bad fortune, to continue into the uncertain future.
    Book Marks July 3, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Such assumptions are based more on psychological phenomena like egocentrism.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Imagine that a person starts and ends all their consideration with what’s best for them — that’s egocentrism.
    David Marchese, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Each aria-song, through middling Latin pop and rap hybrids, expresses the egomania of sociopaths.
    Armond White, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Part of the kick on Brat is Charli’s delirious solipsism, all synthetic robot rah-rah in the beats, but with vocals swerving between defiant egomania and vulnerably tormented self-doubt.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • When Your Greatest Strength Becomes Your Weakness Confidence is essential in leadership, but there's a fine line between self-assurance and self-absorption.
    Isabelita Castilho, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • His self-absorption, against the backdrop of such enormous loss, was particularly striking.
    Kevin Johnson, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In advance of the ceremony, the finalists were asked an essential question: Orwell claimed that prose writers have four ‘great motivations’ (putting aside the need to earn a living): sheer egoism; aesthetic enthusiasm; historical impulse; and political purpose.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
  • Trump’s slogans—America First and Make America Great Again—embody the essence of populism, namely using ideology to advance a political program that is morally unconstrained and driven by collective egoism.
    BÁLINT MADLOVICS, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025

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“Narcissism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narcissism. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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