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English mugs other languages and their associated grammatical rules all the time, especially Greek and Latin, and especially especially words related to mythological figures, like Herculean, Titanic or indeed, Narcissistic.

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English isn’t a person, it’s a language. The root word narcissism was pulled into english by people. Those people were late 19th century psychologists.

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And since it has become a part of general usage English

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It was put into general use by a book which claimed comtemporary america was normalising NPD, and later by self help books selling the old Hitler special - all your problems are caused by a vulnerable minority and please give me money

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