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Etymology
From memamo + -a.
Pronunciation
Adjective
memama (accusative singular memaman, plural memamaj, accusative plural memamajn)
- vain, narcissistic, self-centred, selfish
- Aleksej Birjulin (translator), “Misfortuna Historio” (“An Unpleasant Predicament”) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
- Ivano Iljiĉ iam mem sentis ke li estas tro memama kaj eĉ tro atentema al tio, kion la aliaj pensis pri li.
- Ivan Ilyich himself sometimes felt he was too vain and even paid too much heed to what others thought of him.
- Vladimir Okc (translator), Ojstro (The Gadfly) by E. L. Voynich, Part 2, Chapter 8,
- Malhela vespera lumo mildigis lian mokeman, memaman mienon kaj aperigis tragikajn faldetojn ĉe la buŝo.
- The dim evening light, falling on his face, seemed to soften away its hard, mocking, self-assertive look, and to deepen the tragic lines about the mouth.
- Synonym: egoisma