1905, from German Narzissismus, coined 1899 (in "Die sexuellen Perversitäten"), by German psychiatrist Paul Näcke (1851-1913), on a comparison suggested 1898 by Havelock Ellis, from Greek Narkissos, name of a beautiful youth in mythology (Ovid, "Metamorphoses," iii.370) who fell in love with his own reflection in a spring and was turned to the flower narcissus (q.v.). Coleridge used the word in a letter from 1822.
But already Krishna, enamoured of himself, had resolved to experience lust for his own self; he manifested his own Nature in the cow-herd girls and enjoyed them." [Karapatri, "Lingopasana-rahasya," Siddhanta, II, 1941-2]
Sometimes erroneously as narcism.
实用例句
1. Those who suffer from narcissism become self-absorbed or chronic show-offs.
被自恋症折磨的人会变得只专注于自己的事情，或者不断地自我炫耀。来自柯林斯例句
2. Freud first mentioned this concept in his paper'On Narcissism '.
弗洛伊德在他的论文《论自恋》中首次提到了这个概念.来自《简明英汉词典》
3. Those who suffer from narcissism become self-absorbed.
自恋的人会变得自私。来自辞典例句
4. The collective narcissism of the Kerouac circle is ultimately boring.
凯鲁亚克和他周围人物的集体自我陶醉欲最终使人厌烦不已.来自辞典例句
5. This is not narcissism, but an otherworldly realm of life.
