Self-deficient
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Deficient in itself; not whole or complete; lacking.
"It was a self-deficient people with whom the self-deficient Hitler achieved that peculiar empathy: a resonance of injured self on injured self. Both shamed, they became united."
Example
More examples"It was a self-deficient people with whom the self-deficient Hitler achieved that peculiar empathy: a resonance of injured self on injured self. Both shamed, they became united."
Etymology
From self- + deficient.
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