onanistic

comparative more onanistic · superlative most onanistic

1. Of or pertaining to masturbation or onanism.
2. In a manner which suggests masturbation; hence, fruitless, self-congratulatory, self-absorbed, pointless.

   It creates a sort of myopic, onanistic obsession that warps perspective, reality, truth, and the world around us. The childlike little prince in Saint-Exupéry's famous story makes the same observation, lamenting that “vain men never hear anything but praise.”

   2016, Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, page 76