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Originally Posted by kennyc
Not if it is what you posted and I quoted above, unless you were trying to say that is an incorrect definition of narcissism which you didn't actually say, and your previous post ( the first one I quoted above ) was without any clue as to who/what you were responding to claiming they had an incorrect definition.
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I wasn't defining narcissism there. I was talking about the
misuse of the word. The way the word was used earlier in this discussion was to describe simply think that people might want to read your book as an example of narcissism.
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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.
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That's just a little more than self-focus. It describes
excessive self-focus.
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inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
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I highlighted the key word in the definition.
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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.
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That is not correct, real narcissists are very insecure. They can't deal with the possibility that they might not be as great as they think they are.