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Definition of Self-absorption
1. Noun. Preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else.
Definition of Self-absorption
1. Noun. preoccupation with oneself to the exclusion of everything else ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-absorption
Literary usage of Self-absorption
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"XIX BYRON: HIS self-absorption WHEN he had become for the second time a homeless
and solitary pilgrim, Byron began to occupy himself again with the poem of ..."
2. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"... perhaps, without discovering, from his own self-absorption, that that ceremony
was omitted. CAROLINE, PRINCESS OF WALES. The dejeuner above mentioned of ..."
3. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"without insisting that his hearer should join in chorus; or rather, perhaps,
without discovering, from his own self-absorption, that that ceremony was ..."
4. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"without insisting that his hearer should join in chorus; or rather, perhaps,
without discovering, from his own self-absorption, that that ceremony was ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"Heraclitus' starting point lay positively in his theory of knowledge, which was
a doctrine of speculative intuition and self-absorption. ..."
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