self-involvement
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of self-involvement
First recorded in 1855–65
Example Sentences
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She’s played by an A-list celebrity — Cate Blanchett — operating in a city renowned for its self-involvement and privilege.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025
Laclos' epistolary novel spins a web of decadent self-involvement and class warfare through the exchange of letters between the Marquise de Merteuil, a wealthy widow, and her former lover Vicomte de Valmont.
From Salon • Nov. 6, 2022
Some reviewers of “How Should a Person Be?” took issue with what they saw as the narrator’s self-involvement.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022
Bergman also aimed to convey a sense of self-involvement.
From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2021
One of the older members reads the Abnegation manifesto, which is a short paragraph about forgetting the self and the dangers of self-involvement.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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