narcissistic personality disorder

English

Noun

narcissistic personality disorder (usually uncountable, plural narcissistic personality disorders)

  1. (psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized largely by an overinflated sense of self-importance typically caused by unbalanced parental valuation during childhood.
    People with narcissistic personality disorder usually have very low self-esteem and base all their self-worth on how much attention they receive.

Synonyms
  • NPD (abbreviation)

Translations

See also
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.