Friday, January 06, 2006

Narcissism

so chim..I learnt a new word today
So, Did you know....??

nar·cis·sism also known as nar·cism means:
1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself. conceited.
2. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.
3. Erotic pleasure derived from contemplation or admiration of one's own body or self, especially as a fixation on or a regression to an infantile stage of development.
4. attribute of the human psyche charactized by admiration of oneself but within normal limits.

Sorry lah my English standard very the jernih...
usually i use these terms instead.
Mandarin, 自恋 (zhi4 lian4).
Bahasa Melayu, perasan, syok sendiri, cinta sendiri;
or in our colloquial hokkien, sipeh kao bin puei

4 comments:

Admin said...

see beh hou lian.

Anonymous said...

oh..cerminlah diri anda LMAO!!!
hows it going missy?

H.C. Tan said...

ahpek: tat's a more pasar way of putting it,haha

joe: thanks 4 d new vocab-- LMAO *laugh my ass off

Chin Kian said...

This word is not very uncommon but yet I wasn't too sure about its meaning. Thanks for the heads up