Definitions for self-absorption

self-absorption self-ab·sorp·tion

Spelling: [self-ab-sawrp-shuh n, -zawrp-, self-]
IPA: /ˈsɛlf æbˈsɔrp ʃən, -ˈzɔrp-, ˌsɛlf-/

Self-Absorption is a 15 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 4207 anagrams from letters in self-absorption (-abefilnooprsst).

Definitions for self-absorption

noun

  1. preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.

Origin of self-absorption

First recorded in 1860-65

Examples for self-absorption

He is accused by his father and others of failure and self-absorption, of not being as clever as he thinks he is.

He could not talk, and yet was sufficiently spirited to prevent me from self-absorption.

Or it can be an up-close lesson in the kind of self-absorption and political ego that can trip up some in Washington.

He scorned Alicia's self-absorption, but lacked the strength to go away.

But for all his self-absorption, the Japanese Beethoven ought to have learned from his German counterpart in another manner.

"No," Adriance aroused himself from self-absorption to forbid the upheaval.

It was but the consequence of that self-absorption which the habit of revery had fostered.

It seems like your piece is a sort of a satire of the self-absorption and self-obsession of humans.

Almost 20 years before the HBO series of the same name, Ken Finkleman caricatured the self-absorption of TV news anchors.

I have said that 'peace' is not apathy, that it is not indifference, that it is not self-absorption.

Word Value for self-absorption
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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