单词 | self-absorption |
释义 | self-absorptionn. 1. Absorption in or preoccupation with one's own emotions, interests, or situation; the condition or quality of being self-absorbed. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [noun] > preoccupation with self self-centrality1642 selfhood1647 selfism1731 self-involution1800 self-absorption1803 self-consciousness1833 selfdom1852 self-involvement1860 self-centredness1861 self-centration1862 self-centralization1863 self-centralism1890 self-orientation1950 1803 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (BL Add. MS 47513) f. 121v Self-absorption & Wordly-mindedness [sic] N.B. The latter a most philosophical word. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. xix. 131 That self-absorption which the habit of reverie had fostered. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 94 The lovely and self-absorbed girl Looked back at the handsome and self-absorbed young man And thrilled. And in that thrill he felt: Her self-absorption is even as strong as mine. 1979 V. S. Naipaul Bend in River xi. 188 I did not wish to lose myself in the..self-absorption of that fantasy. 2015 M. Bamberger Men in Green (2016) vi. 85 There's always been a quality of self-absorption with Ken, no question. 2. Physics. The absorption of radiation by the body or substance emitting it. ΚΠ 1904 Astrophysical Jrnl. 19 140 Consequently, the radiation of a gas is limited by the self-absorption which the gas exercises on its own radiation. 1950 Atomics Nov. 334/2 The self-absorption of β-rays in radioactive films..has been investigated. 2010 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107 5313/2 This procedure allowed us to correct for sample self-absorption of scintillation events. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1803 |
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