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self-preoccupied adjective disapproving(alsoselfpreoccupied)uk /ˌself.priːˈɒk.jə.paɪd/ us /ˌself.priːˈɑː.kjə.paɪd/ thinking about yourself too much or most of the time: The exhibition tells us a lot about the artist and even more about our self-preoccupied age. She was always self-preoccupied, and often positively egotistical. He urges the typically self-preoccupied American media and public to confront the cultures of the Middle East, the Far East, and Africa. In his self-preoccupied childhood, he longed for solitude. She is so self-conscious and self-preoccupied that she is angry if people look at her but feels invisible if they don't. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Continually thinking about absorb absorbed axe be devoured by somethingidiom be hung up on somethingidiom be wrapped up in something/someoneidiom brain devour fetishize fixate fixated fixation get into someone nag obsessive obsessively one-track mind overactive preoccupation preoccupied
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