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).
There is now a separate section dealing with issues raised by a verb's VOICE (active/passive). Mood in verbs refers to one of three attitudes that a writer or speaker has to what is being written or spoken. The indicative mood, which describes most sentences on this page, is used to make a statement or ask a question.