• masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    narcissism /när′sĭ-sĭz″əm/ noun

    1. Excessive preoccupation with or admiration of oneself. synonym: conceit. Similar: conceit

    2. A personality disorder characterized by self-preoccupation, need for admiration, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.

    They said ‘his narcissism’ They made no diagnostic qualification.

    Ie. Displaying narcissism and being a narcissist and having a narcissistic personality disorder are all different things with different definitions which can be applied in different ways.