SELF-ABSORPTION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("self-absorption" is a kind of...):

preoccupation (an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-absorption"):

navel-gazing; omphaloskepsis (literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption)

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