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self-loving

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self-love (slflv)
n.
The instinct or desire to promote one's own well-being; regard for or love of one's self.
self-loving adj.
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Adj.1.self-loving - characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance
egotistic, egotistical, narcissistic
selfish - concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman


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You could not love him because you are too proud--no, not proud, that is an error; because you are too vain--no, not quite that either; too self-loving; you are self-loving to madness.
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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