different between narcissism vs narcissistical

English

Etymology

From original German Narzissismus, soon changed to Narzissmus due to haplology, from Narcissus, a character in Greek mythology who became obsessed with his own reflection, +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??s??s?zm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n??s??s?zm/

Noun

narcissism (usually uncountable, plural narcissisms)

1. Excessive love of oneself.
2. Sexual desire for one's own body.

Hyponyms

• NPD

Derived terms

• narcissist
• narcissistic
• narcissize

Translations

See also

• egoism
• egocentrism
• self-love
• self-flattery

Further reading

• narcissism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

narcissist +? -ical

Adjective

narcissistical (comparative more narcissistical, superlative most narcissistical)

1. Of, pertaining to or involved in narcissism or narcissistic behaviour; narcissistic.
   • 1987, Landfall, Volume 41, page 68,

     Sleeping at the Dobbins's, she dreams or 'remembers' herself dancing barefooted at a charity ball for the poor and the persecuted in the Adolf Hitler Hotel, Washington, scattering her jewels on the floor with narcissistical altruism.

   • 1989, Harold I. Kaplan, Benjamin J. Sadock, Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry/V, Volume 1, page 378,

     Most prominent during the phallic phase is the fear of bodily injury or castration. There is great anxiety over the potential loss of a narcissistical and highly invested part of the body.

   • 2001, Brayton Polka, Depth Psychology, Interpretation, and the Bible: An Ontological Essay on Freud, page 85,

     For, while the boy clings to his pre-Oedipal identification with (to his narcissistical love for) the father - the penis - the girl's identificatory love for her mother turns into hate when she makes the momentous discovery that will also dominate the life of the boy: the absence of the penis.