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Narcissism vs Narcissistical - What's the difference?

narcissism | narcissistical |

As a noun narcissism

is excessive love of oneself.

As an adjective narcissistical is

of, pertaining to or involved in narcissism or narcissistic behaviour; narcissistic.

narcissism

English

(narcissism)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Excessive love of oneself.
  • Sexual desire for one's own body.

    • Derived terms

    * narcissist * narcissistic *narcissize

    See also

    * egoism * egocentrism * self-love English eponyms English words suffixed with -ism

    narcissistical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to or involved in narcissism or narcissistic behaviour; narcissistic.
  • * 1987 , , Volume 41, page 68,
    • Sleeping at the Dobbins's, she dreams or 'remembers' herself dancing barefooted at a charity ball for the poor and the persecuted in the Adolf Hitler Hotel, Washington, scattering her jewels on the floor with narcissistical altruism.
  • * 1989 , Harold I. Kaplan, Benjamin J. Sadock, Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry/V , Volume 1, page 378,
    • Most prominent during the phallic phase is the fear of bodily injury or castration. There is great anxiety over the potential loss of a narcissistical and highly invested part of the body.
  • * 2001 , Brayton Polka, Depth Psychology, Interpretation, and the Bible: An Ontological Essay on Freud , page 85,
    • For, while the boy clings to his pre-Oedipal identification with (to his narcissistical love for) the father - the penis - the girl's identificatory love for her mother turns into hate when she makes the momentous discovery that will also dominate the life of the boy: the absence of the penis.