Narcissistic vs Imperious - What's the difference?
narcissistic | imperious |
Having an inflated idea of one's own importance.
Obsessed with one's own self image and ego.
A narcissist.
* 1996 , Susan B. Gall, Bernard Beins, Alan Feldman, The Gale encyclopedia of psychology (page 247)
Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
* 1866 – , translated by C. J. Hogarth
Urgent.
* 1891 –
(obsolete) Imperial or regal.
* 1895 –
As adjectives the difference between narcissistic and imperious
is that narcissistic is having an inflated idea of one's own importance while imperious is domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.As a noun narcissistic
is a narcissist.narcissistic
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(en adjective)Antonyms
*nonnarcissisticNoun
(en noun)- Because narcissistics cannot handle failure, they will take great lengths to avoid risks and situations in which defeat is a possibility.
imperious
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(-)- ...she glanced about her in an imperious , challenging sort of way, with looks and gestures that clearly were unstudied.
- Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth.
- She was quick, beautiful, imperious , while he was quiet, slow, and misty.
