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What characteristic do the flower narcissus and the boy Narcissus share?

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Narcissism- The worship of one's own beauty. According to myth, Narcissus stared at himself in a lake, when a nymph fell in love with his beauty and beckoned him to be with her, he ignored her and continued to stare at his own reflection. In Spite, The nymph turned him into a flower. EX for using narcisstic,

That boy is so narcisstic, all he does is stare at himself and praise his own beauty.

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