Self-loving
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Exhibiting or exemplary of self-love.
"That is a very pleasant line, the one that we have italicized; […] Why did he [Ben Jonson] not write more such? He might answer that he did, and that his poetry was full of enjoyment. But it is not; at least not in the entirely happy, familiar, unmisgiving, self-referential, and yet not self-loving sense that we speak of."
- 1 characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance wordnet
Example
More examples"That is a very pleasant line, the one that we have italicized; […] Why did he [Ben Jonson] not write more such? He might answer that he did, and that his poetry was full of enjoyment. But it is not; at least not in the entirely happy, familiar, unmisgiving, self-referential, and yet not self-loving sense that we speak of."
Etymology
From self- + loving.
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