• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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    12 hours ago

    Narcissus is a fictional character who was written exclusively to convey the idea that is described in the definition of the word based on his name*

    No, the word was invented in the 19th century by Lord Byron and his contemporaries. Nobody ever made a word based on Narcissus until Lord Byron. Ovid was writing about Narcissus thousands of years before then.

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      10 hours ago

      Narcissus was written about once in the entirety of Greek mythology in a story about. A story about how self-obsession is a curse.

      Lord Byron described a personality trait where one exhibits self-obsession to the point of harm and needed a word for it. He referenced the most famous example of self-obsession.

      That is how many things get their names.