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narcissus

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Then if you don't really thing he was Narcissus tumbling into the reflective pool, why did you make the remark?

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Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of narcissus gathered in one view.

noun

Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil

noun

A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus

noun

(Greek mythology) A youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for narcissus.

noun

Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil

noun

A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus

noun

(Greek mythology) A youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.

Example sentences

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Then if you don't really thing he was Narcissus tumbling into the reflective pool, why did you make the remark?

2

I think MetaES is better because it gives you a debugger whereas Narcissus isn't pausable (last I checked).

3

Yet the really funny part is that I don't think he sees himself as a Narcissus at all.

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Additionally MetaES is written in plain ES5, which I think is another plus over Narcissus in terms of general usability.

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This leads to the question of whether (when?) someone will try to port Narcissus to it, potentially leading to a practical self-hosted JavaScript engine.

6

The story follows the parallel lives of a monk Narcissus and his passionate friend Goldmund as they respectively search for meaning in life through spiritual means and through pleasures of the flesh.

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_dt47, if you like it read everything else from Hesse (continue with Steppenwolf, Narcissus and Goldmund, The Glass Bead Game).

8

> The moral of the story of Narcissus, told as a warning for the very people who refuse to hear it as such, is that how Narcissus came to be is irrelevant.

9

As Narcissus fell in love with an outering (projection, extension) of himself, man seems invariably to fall in love with the newest gadget or gimmick that is merely an extension of his own body.

10

Fastest JS parser I've seen (at least in JS compared to coffeescript, esprima, narcissus, etc), bootstrapped in its own language, great type checker/inferencer, easy to follow codebase.

Quote examples

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It has a metacircular evaluator, from the very beginning called "narcissus", and if it had homoiconicity, it would be even more direly hated than it is now.

Proper noun examples

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Narcissus is so taken by his reflection, he does nothing but stare at it, and this is his doom.

2

Narcissus' focus was mainly on prototyping language features and I get the impression that compatibility was never a concern.

3

Falling in love with your public image: the story of Narcissus.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use narcissus in a sentence?

Then if you don't really thing he was Narcissus tumbling into the reflective pool, why did you make the remark?

What does narcissus mean?

Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil

What part of speech is narcissus?

narcissus is commonly used as noun.