narcissistic personality disorder

English

Noun

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

(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 get.

Synonyms

NPD (abbreviation)

Translations

personality disorder

Danish: narcissistisk personlighedsforstyrrelse, narcissistisk personlighedsstruktur

Spanish: trastorno narcisista de la personalidad m

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