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