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self-absorption

Noun

Meaning

preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else

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But in “The Great Gatsby,” when Redford needed to do for Mia Farrow what Streisand had done for him, he couldn’t transcend his immaculate self-absorption. Source: Internet

He describes the consequences of sin and poor decision-making as a descent into dishonesty and self-absorption that eventually landed him on the streets of Anchorage and at the doorstep of the Brother Francis Shelter in the winter of 2012. Source: Internet

In this luminous and tartly comic new novel, Mona Simpson, modern master of the surreal family drama, trains her eye on a generation - and a man - torn between idealism and self-absorption. Source: Internet

Maybe it’s better that he wallow in self-absorption rather than actually try to run the government, since he has no idea how to make things better but is eminently capable of making them worse. Source: Internet

In Praise of Bad CatholicsWe live in a strange time, with traditional words like “mother” and “father” being lost, or mocked, with confusion about sexual identity, with narcissism, self-absorption, skepticism, nihilism. Source: Internet

He uses Ellie, and his self-absorption afterwards compounds his error. Source: Internet

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