self-obsessed

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

self- +‎ obsessed

Adjective[edit]

self-obsessed (comparative more self-obsessed, superlative most self-obsessed)

  1. Deeply interested in oneself to the exclusion of others; vain and narcissistic; egotistical.
    • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
      I have always suffered from a tendency to generate panic out of my own fears and imaginings; I think it is a common weakness of the self-obsessed.