Narcissistic vs. Selfish — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Narcissistic and Selfish
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Narcissistic
Excessive preoccupation with or admiration of oneself.
Selfish
Concerned chiefly or excessively with oneself, and having little regard for others
A selfish child who wouldn't share toys.
Narcissistic
A personality disorder characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. Also called narcissistic personality disorder.
Selfish
Showing or arising from an excessive concern with oneself and a lack of concern for others
A selfish whim.
Narcissistic
Pleasure derived from contemplation or admiration of one's own body or self, considered in psychoanalytic theory to be a fixation on or a regression to an infantile stage of development.
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Selfish
The present quote doesn't illustrate the meaning very well.Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
Narcissistic
Having an inflated idea of one's own importance.
Selfish
Having regard for oneself above others’ well-being.
Narcissistic
Obsessed with one's own self image and ego.
Selfish
(video game characters) Relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.
Narcissistic
A narcissist.
Selfish
Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.
They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions.
In that throng of selfish hearts untrue.
Narcissistic
Having an excessive love of oneself; egocentric; egoistic.
Selfish
Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.
Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers.
Narcissistic
Characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance
Selfish
Concerned chiefly or only with yourself;
Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights
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