boastfulness
Loud self-promotion habit
Boastfulness is the quality of talking too proudly about oneself or one's accomplishments.
It suggests habitual bragging rather than a single proud remark: His boastfulness about his wealth made him tiresome at parties.
The word carries a negative judgment—boastfulness is rarely admired.
Ruinous excessive confidence
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
- haughtinessDisdainful sense of superiority
- pomposityExaggerated sense of importance
self-importance · smugness · superiority · condescension · snobbery · imperiousness · high-handedness · lordliness
Vulgar flaunting of means
- showinessOstentatious display quality
- flamboyanceShowy, confident style
- flashinessOstentatious showiness
- theatricalityExaggerated, showy manner
strutting · peacocking · preening · showing off · flourish · spectacle · swagger · bravado
Rhetorical extreme exaggeration
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
- inflationSustained price level increase
grandiosity · bluster · braggadocio · bombast · tall tales · fish stories · showboating · self-promotion
hubris
Ruinous excessive confidence
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
- haughtinessDisdainful sense of superiority
pomposity · self-importance · smugness · superiority · condescension · snobbery · imperiousness · high-handedness · lordliness · self-aggrandizement
ostentation
Vulgar flaunting of means
- showinessOstentatious display quality
- flamboyanceShowy, confident style
- flashinessOstentatious showiness
theatricality · strutting · peacocking · preening · showing off · flourish · spectacle · swagger · bravado · posturing
hyperbole
Rhetorical extreme exaggeration
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
inflation · grandiosity · bluster · braggadocio · bombast · tall tales · fish stories · showboating · self-promotion · name-dropping
- vicesgreed, envy, lust, gluttony, vanity
- narcissismnarcissist, narcissistic personality disorder, ego, vanity, self-love
- audacityboldness, brazenness, audacity, chutzpah, gall
- bad habitssmoking, drinking, lying, swearing, gossiping
- flawsfaults, defect, flaw, blemish, flaws
- egoego, egoism, big ego, egotism, egocentrism
boastfulnesshumility
Freedom from arrogance
modesty · self-effacement · humbleness · meekness · unpretentiousness
boast, boastful, boasting, bragging, boasts, boaster, bragger, boastfully