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self-centered collapse

protective collapse: intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind; "a protective covering"; "the use of protective masks and equipment"; "protective coatings"; "kept the drunken sailor in protective custody"; "animals with protective coloring"; "protective tariffs"

possessive collapse: desirous of owning; "small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys"; having or showing a desire to control or dominate; "a possessive parent"; serving to express or indicate possession; "possessive pronouns"; "the genitive endings"

jealous collapse: suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover"

egotistic collapse: characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance

egotistical collapse

nominative collapse: the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb; named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock"; serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb; "nominative noun endings"; "predicate nominative"

prepositional collapse: of or relating to or formed with a preposition; "prepositional phrase"

narcissistic collapse

selfish collapse: concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman

self-indulgent collapse: indulgent of your own appetites and desires; "a self-indulgent...way of looking at life"- Havelock Ellis

mistrust collapse

distrust collapse: the trait of not trusting others; regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in

self-serving collapse: interested only in yourself

self-seeking collapse

self-esteeming collapse

acquisitive collapse: eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"

hoggish collapse: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"

proprietary collapse: protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights; "`Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which `acetaminophen' is the generic form"

individualistic collapse: with minimally restricted freedom in commerce

doubt collapse: uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something; "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no question about the validity of the enterprise"; the state of being unsure of something; consider unlikely or have doubts about; "I doubt that she will accept his proposal of marriage"; lack confidence in or have doubts about; "I doubt these reports"; "I suspect her true motives"; "she distrusts her stepmother"

self-contained collapse: constituting a complete and independent unit in and of itself; "the university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities"

greedy collapse: wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies"

self-sufficient collapse: able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit"

remote collapse: far apart in nature; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"

grasping collapse: the act of gripping something firmly with the hands; understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"

autistic collapse: characteristic of or affected with autism; "autistic behavior"; "autistic children"

suspect collapse: someone who is under suspicion; imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"; hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"

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