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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-absorbed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I was too self-absorbed to notice how unhappy she was.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He depicts his noisy, disordered, life-loving, quarrelsome, self-absorbed family with a historian's detachment.
▪ His play may lack assertive or aggressive themes, and still has a self-absorbed quality.
▪ It appeared that, like other self-absorbed children, Robbie had difficulties at a number of developmental levels.
▪ Simultaneously bold and innocent, neither abject nor objects of our gaze, they are self-absorbed and self-contained; available to each other.
▪ Sometimes a self-absorbed child is less sensitive visually as well.
▪ Sometimes the self-absorbed child also shows little interest in his parents, ignoring them or seeming not to focus on them.
▪ Wholly self-absorbed, the tone benefits from this inward direction.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
self-absorbed

1796, from self- + absorbed (see absorb).

Wiktionary
self-absorbed

a. Overly concerned about oneself, to the point of ignoring the feelings of others.

WordNet
self-absorbed

adj. absorbed in your own interests or thoughts etc [syn: self-involved]

Usage examples of "self-absorbed".

The motion picture actor Michael Robinson thought it was absurd and more than a little self-absorbed for him to be concerned or afraid of the maniac killers on the loose in Washington.

Those callers who out of unconscious habit succumbed to fuguelike doodling or pants-crease-adjustment now came off looking rude, absentminded, or childishly self-absorbed.

Felisin had until now been too self-absorbed, too numb with shock to pay any attention to her companions in the chain line: this man was a priest of Fener, the Boar of Summer, and the flies seemed to know it, understand it enough to alter their frenzied motion.

A hush fell upon the seated Emergents and all but the most self-absorbed Traders.

Yet that was a tradition among Finley women, hooking up with handsome, self-absorbed men who quickly lost interest in them.

Kamisaka had often seen the mountainous musculature created by pumping iron-it seemed that many of her female classmates carried with them magazines filled with color photographs of such oiled figures, posing like self-absorbed peacocks-and she could not see the attraction.

Now the ptichka, their heads bobbing like well-oiled machines, swallow their arrogant, self-absorbed boyfriends.