Myth & LegendGreek → English
Narcissism
Excessive self-admiration.
The Greek roots
Νάρκισσος
Nárkissos
Narcissus
Literally: “in the manner of Narcissus”
Follow a root:νάρκισσος2 words
The story of the word
Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection and wasted away beside it — a name now given to self-obsession.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
The memoir teetered between honesty and narcissism.