self-engrossment
- a word derived from engrossment.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps that was just it; they had always something to do, something outside of themselves,—in their honest, earnest lives there was little to tempt them to a frivolous self-engrossment.
From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
In a moment all the self-engrossment of her bashfulness was gone.
From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine
Let me add that their legitimate use is to teach us a ready sympathy with the sorrows and trials of others, rather than a hardened self-engrossment.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry
"Whatever else the blues accomplish, they certainly afford us a chance to submerge ourselves in a sea of self-engrossment."
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.
Taciturnity and self-engrossment, you may remark, are not the prominent characteristics of the favorites of society.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry
