A personality disorder characterized by self-preoccupation, need for admiration, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem. 3. 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 adjective (SHOWING). âº being or ârelating to a âsign that something âexists, is âtrue, or is âlikely to âhappen: Resumption of the âtalks is indicative of an âimproved ârelationship between the âcountries. (Definition of indicative from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press).
The indicative mood is a verb form which makes a statement or asks a question. For example: The vast majority of sentences are in the indicative mood. The main verb (i.e., the finite verb) in a declarative sentence (a statement) or an interrogative sentence (a question) will be in the indicative mood. Here are some more examples of verbs in the indicative mood (shaded):