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adjectiveself-obsessed (comparative more self-obsessed, superlative most self-obsessed)
comparative more self-obsessed · superlative most self-obsessed
- Deeply interested in oneself to the exclusion of others; vain and narcissistic; egotistical.
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.
1993, John Banville, Ghosts
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