Saturday, September 27, 2008

Definition of the Day

Narcissism
-n
1. inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.
2. Psychoanalysis. erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.
3. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.
4. the act of posting self-portraits, especially revealing ones, on websites open to all, especially ogling self-contained men who appreciate the "art" of perfect strangers.

-Syn: self-promotion, self-peeping, self-porn, self-worth
-See also: aesthetes, voyeurs, fantasizers, feminists

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