Narcissus (mythology)

In <a href="/facts/Greek_mythology/M7k4FvW8">Greek mythology</a>, Narcissus was a hunter from <a href="/facts/Thespiae/gEmzTK5T">Thespiae</a> in <a href="/facts/Boeotia/V8Prmucy">Boeotia</a> (alternatively <a href="/facts/Karaburun/m5MXKNLb">Mimas</a> or modern-day <a href="/facts/Karaburun/m5MXKNLb">Karaburun</a>, <a href="/facts/%C4%B0zmir_Province/BQSmoCzB">Izmir</a>) who was known for his beauty which was noticed by all. According to the best-known version of the story in <a href="/facts/Ovid/qw6buQ2V">Ovid's</a> <a href="/facts/Metamorphoses/1VToCpsF">Metamorphoses</a>, Narcissus rejected the advances of all men and women who approached him, instead falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. In some versions, he beat his breast purple in agony at being kept apart from this reflected love, and in his place sprouted <a href="/facts/Narcissus_(plant)/1d2bmeJ5">a flower bearing his name</a>.
The character of Narcissus is the origin of the term <a href="/facts/Narcissism/Q2bT0HUY">narcissism</a>, a self-centered personality style. This quality in extreme contributes to the definition of <a href="/facts/Narcissistic_personality_disorder/Q3a0lrXm">narcissistic personality disorder</a>, a <a href="/facts/Psychiatric_condition/EPNjFtFf">psychiatric condition</a> marked by <a href="/facts/Grandiosity/InAepKMt">grandiosity</a>, excessive need for attention and admiration, and an inability to <a href="/facts/Empathy/Pak5Dvfh">empathize</a>.

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