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• n  preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else

• It restores a personal, lyric dimension to folk music, cuts through the smugness and self-absorption that have characterized it for too long.
• He loves to talk (he does so with unselfconscious self-absorption), to expatiate in professorial detail (with the slightest hint of a lisp).
• Bloggers are all the rage, but some tipping point of self-absorption may have been reached with BLOGEBRITY, a new site toasting the blogosphere's in crowd.

News & Articles

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• This Is the End seeks redemption for obnoxious actors
  The apocalypse has been showing up with greater frequency in film as of late. And though the apocalypse is quite literal in This Is the End , this comedy may also signal the end of the creative road for the kind of raunchy, Judd Apatow school of bromantic comedy that has dominated screens in recent years. Amid its celebration of weed, self-absorption and phallocentric humor, This Is the End ...
  June 15, 2013 - Isthmus
• Sasha Frere-Jones: Kanye West’s assaultive new album.
  Why are so many people fond of being mad at Kanye West? Is it his lack of control, his self-absorption, his boastfulness? Complaining about a surfeit of ego in a celebrity performer is like going to Barcelona and bitching that the locals eat dinner too late. We have no . . .
  June 14, 2013 - The New Yorker

Quotes

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• Barbara Ehrenreich in Plain Dealer
  The threats we face are real and can be vanquished only by shaking off self-absorption and taking action in the world,Ehrenreich concludes.
• Laura Ingraham in Gather.com
  The complaints of Western feminists look like petty self-absorption when you line them up against human rights abuses in Third World military dictatorships,Ingraham wrote.
• Howard Dean in San Francisco Chronicle
  They are the party of selfishness and self-absorption,Dean told the party's executive committee in a morning meeting.