1 A personality disorder characterized by self-preoccupation, need for admiration, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.  Erotic pleasure derived from contemplation or admiration of one's own body or self, especially as a fixation on or a regression to an infantile stage of development.
Indicative means stating a fact.. The indicative mood is a category of verb forms that we use to state facts. Examples: Joe plays outside.. (The speaker thinks it's a fact.) It will rain soon.. (The speaker thinks it's a fact.) She was studying all day long..
The difference between indicative and counterfactual conditionals, in a context of past time reference, is one of emphasis, and can be illustrated with a pair of examples in which the if clause is in the past indicative in the first example but in the pluperfect subjunctive in the second: