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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

narcisista

Pronunciation / Transliteration: narsisista

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Narcissist/ˈnɑːr.sɪ.sɪst/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Un narcisista rara vez se preocupa por los sentimientos de los demás."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves.

    "He is such a narcissist that he spends hours admiring himself in the mirror and rarely asks about others."
  2. 2

    Someone suffering from narcissistic personality disorder, characterized by a grandiose sense of self-importance and a lack of empathy.

    "Psychologists note that a true narcissist often masks deep insecurity behind a facade of extreme superiority."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek mythological figure Narcissus, a youth who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. The term entered modern European languages in the late 19th century through psychiatry and psychoanalysis, notably in the works of Havelock Ellis and Sigmund Freud, evolving to describe clinical and general personality traits of excessive self-admiration.

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