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NPD

/ɛn piː diː/

NPD is the initialism of narcissistic personality disorder.

NPD is the initialism of nonpayment of dues.

NPD is the initialism of new product development.

Meaning of narcissistic personality disorder

Noun

narcissistic personality disorder (usually uncountable, plural narcissistic personality disorders)

  1. (usually) A personality disorder characterized by an overinflated sense of self-importance (incl. subordination of other people's needs), sensitivity to criticism and difference in opinion and the denigration of others that are deemed lesser.
    • People with narcissistic personality disorder usually have very low self-esteem and base all their self-worth on how much attention they receive.

Proper noun

NPD

  1. (German) The National Democratic Party.
    • Over 2,000 police officers were on duty for the NPD march, which was allowed to go ahead on condition the demonstrators stayed out of the city centre and after two planned speakers were banned.2002 February 2, “German far-right holds march”, in CNN
    • Four years ago, the German government failed to ban the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD), which had won a handful of seats in a number of regional state assemblies.2021 March 4, “Germany’s far-right AfD becomes first party to be put under government surveillance since Nazi era”, in CNN, sourced from Reuters

Origin of NPD

Borrowed from German NPD (“Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands”).

Questions about NPD

What does NPD mean?
NPD means the National Democratic Party.
What is NPD the initialism of?
NPD is the initialism of narcissistic personality disorder.
What part of speech is NPD?
NPD is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce NPD?
NPD is pronounced /ɛn piː diː/.

Words near NPD in the dictionary

  1. NPAS
  2. NPC
  3. NPCA
  4. NPCC
  5. NPCs
  6. NPD
  7. NPDer
  8. NPDers
  9. NPDES
  10. NPE
  11. NPEs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: NPD (page history and authors); narcissistic personality disorder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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