narcissistic personality disorder

English

Noun

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

1. (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
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• German: narzisstische Persönlichkeitsstörung f
• Spanish: trastorno narcisista de la personalidad m

See also

• borderline personality disorder
• antisocial personality disorder
• histrionic personality disorder
• schizoid personality disorder