preoccupation
noun
the state of being preoccupied.
self-preoccupation
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a word derived from
preoccupation.
Example Sentences
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This is the backdrop to our aristocrat’s leisurely philosophical inquiry and self-preoccupation; this is the subtlety of Machado’s psychological shading.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
More exasperating than his self-preoccupation is the childish malingering over the many tasks of breaking up—the taxes to be disentangled, the property to be settled.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
After the Inferno of family relationships we then see the Purgatory of self-preoccupation before we get a glimpse of Paradise in which Bob and Madeleine become a modern Dante and Beatrice.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2012
Otherwise, you’re engaging in a form of rhetorical narcissism and ideological self-preoccupation that has no consequence on the material conditions of actually existing poor people.”
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2012
There can be rediscovery of those aspects of life which are so easily taken for granted; one can relearn to see the world other than through the tunnel vision of self-preoccupation.
From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann
