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).
Someone's grammar is the way in which they obey or do not obey the rules of grammar when they write or speak. His vocabulary was sound and his grammar excellent. ...a deterioration in spelling and grammar among teenagers. 3. countable noun. A grammar is a book that describes the rules of a language. ...an advanced English grammar. 4. variable noun. A particular grammar is a particular theory that is intended to explain the rules of a language.