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Narcissa Wright

Narcissa Wright, formerly CosmoWright, is an American Zelda speedrunner who set the 2014 Ocarina of Time 18:10 world record on iQue, co-founded SpeedRunsLive, came out as transgender in 2015, and retired from record grinding due to hand injuries.

Narcisse Ngoy

Narcisse Ngoy, French 7-foot center born 2004; Elite 2 MVP at Poitiers (11.8 rpg, 2.6 bpg, 70% FG); drafted 57th in 2026 by Atlanta, rights to Clippers; plays at Auburn 2026-27.

Narcissism

Narcissism: personality construct marked by entitlement, grandiosity, and vulnerability, spanning ordinary self-enhancement to narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Grandiose and vulnerable dimensions; NPI and PNI measures; NPD entered DSM-III in 1980.

Narcissistic number

A narcissistic number, also called an Armstrong number, is a number equal to the sum of its digits each raised to the number of digits, like 153.

Narcissistic parent

Narcissistic parent: a cultural term for parents with excessive needs for admiration or importance, distinct from narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), a DSM-5 diagnosis affecting roughly 1–6% of adults and linked to insecure attachment, low self-esteem, anxiety, and depression in children.

Narcissistic personality disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), a DSM-5-TR Cluster B diagnosis defined by grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy; subsumed under the ICD-11 dimensional severity-and-traits model since 2022.

Narcissistic Personality Inventory

The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) is a self-report questionnaire measuring grandiose narcissism in nonclinical populations, introduced by Robert Raskin and Calvin Hall in 1979 and best known in a 40-item forced-choice form.

Narcissu (ナルキッソス)

Narcissu (ナルキッソス) is a 2005 freeware kinetic novel by Tomo Kataoka and Stage-nana about two terminally ill patients who flee a hospice; its minimalist, choice-free design, insani's first al|together English translation, and over one million downloads distinguish it from branching visual novels.

Narcissu: Side 2nd

Narcissu: Side 2nd (ナルキッソス -SIDE 2nd-) is Tomo Kataoka's 2007 kinetic novel prequel to Narcissu by STAGE NANA, set seven years earlier around hospice patient Himeko Shinohara and a 15-year-old Setsumi; free official English release, Steam 2014.

Narcissus 'King Alfred'

Narcissus 'King Alfred' is a Division 1 trumpet daffodil raised in Devon in the 1890s, awarded an RHS First Class Certificate in 1899 and the standard yellow daffodil for decades.

Narcissus (plant)

Narcissus (daffodils, jonquils, paperwhites) is a Mediterranean bulb genus in Amaryllidaceae with 36-54 species, 2n=10-72 chromosomes, 13 horticultural divisions, and over 20,000 registered cultivar names.

Narcissus (Νάρκισσος) (mythology)

Narcissus (Νάρκισσος, Narkissos), a beautiful Boeotian youth of Greek mythology, son of river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope, who loved his reflection, died, and became the daffodil; best known from Ovid's Metamorphoses with Echo, though Pausanias and Conon preserve other versions.

Narcissus divisions and cultivars

Narcissus divisions are the thirteen classes into which the Royal Horticultural Society places every daffodil, from long-trumpeted forms to doubles, split-coronas, and botanical species, with cultivars in Divisions 1–12 and botanical taxa in Division 13.

Narcissus jonquilla

Narcissus jonquilla, the true jonquil or rush daffodil, is an Iberian bulbous Amaryllidaceae species with rush-like leaves, fragrant golden flowers, 2n=14, parent of Division 7 jonquilla daffodils.

Narcissus pseudonarcissus

Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the daffodil or wild daffodil (Lent Lily), is a bulbous geophyte native to western Europe, described by Linnaeus in 1753, parent of most yellow trumpet cultivars, and poisonous in all parts.

Narco-Saints

Narco-Saints (수리남, Suriname) is a 2022 six-episode Netflix Korean crime thriller by Yoon Jong-bin starring Ha Jung-woo and Hwang Jung-min, loosely based on drug lord Cho Bong-haeng's Suriname trafficking ring and the NIS operation that caught him.

Narco-state

A narco-state is a country whose political institutions have been heavily seized by drug-trafficking organizations, from states run by corrupt cartels to those where traffickers hold high office; scholars dispute the label as imprecise.

Narco-submarine

A narco-submarine, commonly called a narco sub, is a homemade, low-observable watercraft built by drug traffickers to smuggle cocaine across the sea while evading detection.

Narcocorrido

Narcocorrido (narco-corrido, drug ballad): Mexican corrido subgenre narrating drug trafficking and traffickers; first documented example "El Pablote" (1931, El Paso), commercial boom from the 1970s, Sinaloan heartland, and 2025 Mexican censorship controversy.

Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy, a chronic sleep-wake disorder affecting about 1 in 2,000 people, caused by loss of hypothalamic orexin (hypocretin) neurons; symptoms include excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy; oveporexton (Orzeyful) approved 2026.

Narcolepsy type 2

Narcolepsy type 2 (narcolepsy without cataplexy) is a central disorder of hypersomnolence with excessive daytime sleepiness, MSLT latency ≤8 min and ≥2 SOREMPs, no cataplexy, and no reliable biomarker; orexin deficiency reclassifies it as type 1.

Narcomedusae

Narcomedusae, an order of Trachylina hydrozoan jellyfish, are open-ocean midwater predators of gelatinous zooplankton that develop directly into medusae, with a parasitic polypoid stage evolved once.

Narcos

Narcos is a Netflix crime drama (2015–2017, 3 seasons, 30 episodes) created by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro, dramatizing Pablo Escobar, the Medellín Cartel, and DEA agents Steve Murphy and Javier Peña, followed by Narcos: Mexico.

Narcos vs Zombies

Narcos vs Zombies, also known as S.O.Z: Soldados o Zombies (Soldiers or Zombies), is the original announced title of a 2021 Mexican Prime Video series: drug lord Alonso Marroquín escapes prison as a failed U.S. military experiment creates mutant zombies; 8 episodes, created by Nicolás Entel and Miguel Tejada-Flores.

Narcos: Mexico

Narcos: Mexico (Narcos: México) is a Netflix crime drama, 2018–2021, 3 seasons, 30 episodes, spun off from Narcos as its planned fourth season, starring Diego Luna, Michael Peña, and Scoot McNairy as the Guadalajara cartel rises.

Narcotic

Narcotic is a term for drugs that relieve pain and dull the senses; medicine now prefers opioid, while in law it follows the 1961 Single Convention.

Narcotic (Liquido song)

Narcotic is Liquido's 1998 debut single, written by Wolfgang Schrödl on a Roland D-70; it hit No. 3 in Germany, No. 1 in Austria, sold 8 million copies, missed the UK/US, and was remade by YouNotUs in 2019.

Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (मादक पदार्थ और मनोदैहिक पदार्थ अधिनियम, 1985)

India's principal drug-control statute, the NDPS Act 1985 (मादक पदार्थ और मनोदैहिक पदार्थ अधिनियम, 1985), in force 14 November 1985, prohibits narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors except medical or scientific use, with graded quantity-based sentencing.

Narcotics Anonymous

Narcotics Anonymous (NA), founded July 1953, is a free global twelve-step fellowship for recovering drug addicts with no drug distinctions, over 79,000 weekly meetings in 122 countries, governed by Twelve Traditions and NAWS in Chatsworth, California.

Narcotics Control Bureau

Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), India's central nodal drug law enforcement agency, created 17 March 1986 under Section 4(3) of the NDPS Act, 1985; under the Ministry of Home Affairs since 2003; coordinates NCORD, ANTFs, and international drug conventions.