self-absorption
Excessive personal focus
Self-absorption is excessive preoccupation with one's own thoughts, feelings, or circumstances.
The self-absorbed person fails to notice or care about others: His self-absorption made him oblivious to her distress.
The word carries a negative connotation—unlike introspection, which may be healthy, self-absorption suggests a failure to engage with the world beyond oneself.
Excessive admiration of oneself
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
- vanityExcessive pride in oneself
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
- indifferenceLack of interest
insensitivity · obliviousness · inconsideration · unempathetic · me-first · myopia · detachment
Sustained reflective attention
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- meditationFocused attention practice
- soul-searchingProbing one's innermost feelings
- broodingAnxiously dwelling on something
pondering · mindfulness · navel-gazing · inwardness · overthinking · journaling
Only self surely exists
- subjectivityPersonal viewpoint coloring perception
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
individuality · perception · cogito · idealism · epistemology · interiority · ego · metaphysics
narcissism
Excessive admiration of oneself
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
- vanityExcessive pride in oneself
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
indifference · insensitivity · obliviousness · inconsideration · unempathetic · me-first · myopia · detachment
contemplation
Sustained reflective attention
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- meditationFocused attention practice
- soul-searchingProbing one's innermost feelings
brooding · pondering · mindfulness · navel-gazing · inwardness · overthinking · journaling
solipsism
Only self surely exists
- subjectivityPersonal viewpoint coloring perception
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
existentialism · individuality · perception · cogito · idealism · epistemology · interiority · ego · metaphysics · ontology
- selfishnessgreed, egoism, narcissism, entitlement, avarice
- egoego, egoism, big ego, egotism, egocentrism
- vanityconceit, narcissism, ego, hubris, arrogance
- narcissismnarcissist, narcissistic personality disorder, ego, vanity, arrogance
- narrow-mindednessnarrow-mindedness, narrowness, close-mindedness, closed-mindedness, close-minded
- self-imagebody image, mirror image, introspection, personal brand, autobiography
self-absorptionselflessness
Prioritizing others over oneself
altruism · unselfishness · self-sacrifice · self-abnegation · magnanimity
self-absorptionobjectivity
Freedom from personal bias
disinterestedness · impartiality · detachment · neutrality · fairness
self, selfish, absorb, selfless, selfie, absorption, absorbent, self-esteem, selfishness