narcissize

Verb

Plain form narcissize

Third-person singular narcissizes

Past tense narcissized

Past participle narcissized

Present participle narcissizing

1. If you narcissize someone, you devalue and socially invalidate them, while glorifying and socially validating yourself.

   Her daughter's self-esteem hit rock bottom after she was narcissized by her mother.

Related words

• megalomania

Usage note

To onlookers, narcissizing has the outward semblance of chauvinism, however, the seemingly compulsive drive within narcissists to inconsiderately foster social stratification in a manner that benefits themselves and wherein the interests of those who are narcissized get subverted derives from a narcissists' innate mood disorder of emotional dysregulation.