Absorbed
Caught
Caught adjective - Containing unborn young within the body.
Both words in one sentence
- Are her children completely uncontrollable brats, or is she too self-absorbed and caught up in self-pity to tend to their emotional needs?
- Actively resisting any sort of character development, he's so self-absorbed and caught up in his own delusions that it's difficult to sympathize with him at all.
Source: Hate Sink - The bitter irony of this is that Mei does care about Naru; unfortunately, Naru's too self-absorbed and caught up in her own delusions to realize the lecture she's giving Mei would better be directed at HERSELF.
Source: Break Them by Talking
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