Self-absorption

Domain	Definitions
Nuclear Energy & Physics	The absorption of radiation from a radionuclide, contained in a radioactive source, in the material of that source. Source: European Union. (references)
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Modern Usage: Self-absorption

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Usage

Screenplays

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler)

I always thought masturbation was the ultimate act of self-absorption. (The Big Chill; writing credit: Barbara Benedek; Lawrence Kasdan)

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Commercial Usage: Self-absorption

Domain	Title
Books	The Awareness Trap: Self-Absorption Instead of Social Change (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Self-absorption

"Self-absorption" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-absorption" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Self-absorption

Language		Translations for "self-absorption"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		聚精会神. (various references)

Danish		selvabsorption. (various references)

Dutch		zelfabsorptie. (various references)

French		auto-absorption. (various references)

German		Selbstabsorption, Eigenabsorption. (various references)

Greek		αυτοαπορρόφηση. (various references)

Italian		autoassorbimento. (various references)

Pig Latin		elf-absorptionsay

Spanish		ensimismamiento (absorption, brown study, reverie, trance, withdrawal). (various references)

Ukranian		захопленість самим собою, егоцентризм (egocentrism). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự say mê (addiction, eagerness, enchantment, keenness, rage), sự miệt m� i (indulgence, self-abandonment). (various references)
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Anagrams: Self-absorption

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: professional.
	-3 letters: absorptions, blastopores, blastospore, fortepianos, personalist, pianofortes, portionless, tablespoons.
	-4 letters: absorption, blastopore, fortepiano, operations, ostensoria, paltriness, patronises, pianoforte, polonaises, portliness, potboilers, probations, profession, profitable, profitless, reflations, saprolites, spoliators, sponsorial, stainproof, tablespoon.
	-5 letters: abortions, aerofoils, aloofness, antipoles, antipress, aspersion, assertion, atropines, banisters, baritones, barstools, biosensor, boltonias, boltropes, bonspiels, botanises, brainless, epiblasts, erosional, farnesols, fireboats.
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