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Recent Examples of narcissism Glinda’s hair flips and knee-jerk narcissism lack the necessary conviction. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024 The benefits of both jobs, at least on an armchair-psychology level, involve a mix of duty and narcissism—someone has to thanklessly call balls and strikes, someone needs to go to a city-hall meeting and write up what the mayor said. Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024 Gratitude is the opposite of selfishness, egotism, avarice or narcissism. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024 Is narcissism genetic?Narcissists are made, not born. Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for narcissism 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for narcissism
Noun
  • If Nietzsche was right, altruism comes from selfishness, humility from arrogance, love from hate.
    Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • His selfishness ran counterintuitive to the label’s ethos, which Faith Evans described as being familial.
    Jayson Rodriguez, Variety, 18 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Sound design includes a girl power soundtrack credited to Meltzer and associate director Bailey Hacker, set design by Michael McKeever puts the focal point on large portraits of past presidents and a change of set a couple of times moves the action to a vanity in the office’s ladies’ bathroom.
    Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Naturally, the principal bedroom has massive side-by-side closets and its own ensuite bath, complete with marble flooring, green ceramic tile walls, double vanities, and a glass shower.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Meghan McCain slams Meghan Markle's new 'out of touch' TV show: 'Do something to help people instead of your ego' Production delays in an industry still recovering from the 2023 SAG-WGA strikes are only the tip of the iceberg.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Over the past fifty years, the job of Lorne Michaels, the show’s creator, has been to make the stars look good, and to corral the egos and talents on his staff in order to get the program on the air, live.
    Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Other simulations have relied on personality trait theory, which holds that people have varying levels of psychoticism (aggression and egocentrism), extraversion (associated with more daring behaviors) and neuroticism (linked to anxiety and shyness).
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The common traits here are a lack of empathy and egocentrism.
    Ana Reed, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • There are early indications that Biden’s mishandling of classified documents is rooted in error rather than corruption or egomania.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The hour climaxed with Bob Odenkirk winning an Emmy, probably, with a burst of florid hallway egomania.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2020
Noun
  • But Headland’s play distinguishes itself from the others by investigating these confrontations alongside pride: How does this sin, defined by blinding self-absorption and lack of humility, distort the Dahls’ love?
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
  • But that feckless self-absorption is rerouted, if not extinguished, by a chance sighting of local resident Charlotte (Alison Pill).
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information, Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024

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