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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
My definition of narcissism is quite standard. Narcissism is a word that gets misused quite often. I don't see anything narcissistic about thinking that you can write a book that people might want to read. At least not in the most common definition of narcissism. If you apply that definition, then everyone but the most shy wallflower would be a narcissist. Narcissism is generally considered to be more than just a sense of self worth, it's generally means an excessive evaluation of your own qualities. A grandmother who thinks that her cookies are good enough to enter in the county fair probably isn't a narcissist. But if that grandmother flips out because she didn't win, and starts blaming everyone else, then she might be.
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That's a very poor definition of narcissism.
Narcissism at it's simplistic is self-focus. From Wiki:
. In everyday speech, "narcissism" often means egoism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.
from Dictionary.com:
narcissism
[nahr-suh-siz-em] Example Sentences Origin
nar·cis·sism
[nahr-suh-siz-em] Show IPA
noun
1.
inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
2.
Psychoanalysis . erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.
Flipping out about not winning the county fair is not narcissism, a narcissist wouldn't care and would already know that their cookies are the best, in fact they would be too self-absorbed in their cookies and how good they were to even bother entering the county fair.
And besides my grandmother is not a narcissist, she told me so herself.