self-deficient

English

Etymology

self- +‎ deficient

Adjective

self-deficient (comparative more self-deficient, superlative most self-deficient)

1. deficient in itself; not whole or complete; lacking
   • 1991, Harold Barrett, Rhetoric and Civility: Human Development, Narcissism, and the Good Audience:

     It was a self-deficient people with whom the self-deficient Hitler achieved that peculiar empathy: a resonance of injured self on injured self. Both shamed, they became united.

   • 2014, Leroy Robinson, Jr., Proceedings of the 2009 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference:

     Importantly, however, researchers and philosophers contend that the ego that is created is not who an individual actually is since the ego erroneously believes that the true nature of oneself is self-deficient.