Is there a single word that describes someone who hates themself? (Antonym of narcissist)
Situation: Alice is telling Bob that Charlie doesn't love himself, like Bob thinks. In fact, Charlie hates himself.
"You don't know him. He's the antithesis of a narcissist. He's a ______"
I'm looking for a single (preferably non-compound) word that describes a guy who hates himself (too much).
I've already discarded self-hater and self-loather. These words are not listed (even as derivatives) in Oxford or AHD. And like this ngram shows, self-hatred
and self-loathing
come up frequently enough; but 'self-hater
' and 'self-loather
' don't. Besides, they're compound words.
Neither Thesaurus.com nor Oxford lists an antonym of narcissist; which Oxford defines as
a person who admires himself or herself too much, especially their appearance
I'm not looking to paraphrase my sentence. I'm looking for a single word; which needs to be more impactful here. Just like saying "he's a narcissist" has more impact than saying "he loves himself (too much)."
Can anyone think of a word which would be a good fit in the given sentence?
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