as in selfness
excessive interest in oneself
the novel's major characters all suffer from self-absorption, and they are every bit as insufferable as such people are in real life
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Recent Examples of self-absorption
When Your Greatest Strength Becomes Your Weakness Confidence is essential in leadership, but there's a fine line between self-assurance and self-absorption.
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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
But, sometimes, accomplishment and self-absorption can go together.
—Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
In the view of Georgie’s daughter, Suke Wolton, who teaches politics at Oxford, her late mother found Foster’s self-absorption a little hard to take.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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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
But, sometimes, accomplishment and self-absorption can go together.
—Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
In the view of Georgie’s daughter, Suke Wolton, who teaches politics at Oxford, her late mother found Foster’s self-absorption a little hard to take.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-absorption
Noun
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Belly snaps at Taylor for her TikTok therapy and her selfishness, at which point Steven bursts in to defend Taylor and announce that Jere’s back.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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And now, his selfishness might cost their family that clan.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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On the surface, vanity PR may look good.—
Jenna Guarneri,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The report suggests there could also be other operating issues with the vehicle's DC/AC inverter, glove box light, vanity lights, dome lamps, alarm portion of the horn, rear defrost, or the USB charger.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
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The film’s non-judgmental narration — read by Jacek Zubiel — comments on the characters’ innermost thoughts along the way, adding to the general patina of narcissism without pointing fingers or placing blame.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
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The study also highlighted that self-love and narcissism are opposites.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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There are moments, of course, especially with characters like Ken (Tim Key), a middle manager with an outsized ego who routinely makes a mess of things, but tonally this is a very different show than its predecessor.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Children being raised in different homes can still have positive outcomes if both parents are willing to put their egos aside and do the self-work needed to show up as the healthy adults their kids deserve.—
Essence,
Essence,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Self-absorption.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-absorption. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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