self-deficient
adjEtymology
From self- + deficient.
Definitions
Deficient in itself
Deficient in itself; not whole or complete; lacking.
- It was a self-deficient people with whom the self-deficient Hitler achieved that peculiar empathy: a resonance of injured self on injured self. Both shamed, they became united.
- Importantly, however, researchers and philosophers contend that the ego that is created is not who an individual actually is since the ego erroneously believes that the true nature of oneself is self-deficient.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for self-deficient. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA