Narcissistic vs Supercilious - What's the difference?
narcissistic | supercilious |
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)
Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
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As adjectives the difference between narcissistic and supercilious
is that narcissistic is having an inflated idea of one's own importance while supercilious is arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.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.
supercilious
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(en adjective)British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious , contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.
- Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.