immodesty
Lack of humility
Immodesty is a lack of modesty—behavior or dress that violates standards of propriety, especially regarding sexual display or self-promotion.
Someone showing immodesty might wear revealing clothing or boast excessively about accomplishments.
The term carries moral weight, implying the person should know better: She was accused of immodesty for her low-cut dress.
What counts as immodest varies enormously across cultures and eras.
Shameless, defiant boldness
- audacityBrazen, reckless daring
- boldnessFearless readiness to act
- forwardnessUndue familiarity or boldness
- impudenceShameless boldness toward superiors
gall · effrontery · unabashedness · impertinence · temerity · cheekiness · presumptuousness · indecency
Ruinous excessive confidence
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
- haughtinessDisdainful sense of superiority
- pomposityExaggerated sense of importance
self-importance · boastfulness · presumption · overconfidence · smugness · superciliousness · vainglory · imperiousness
Grooming with vanity
- self-admirationExcessive regard for oneself
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- self-lovePrioritizing your own worth
- self-absorptionPreoccupation with oneself
conceitedness · primping · self-regard · peacocking · showing off · self-obsession · vainglory · dandyism
brazenness
Shameless, defiant boldness
- audacityBrazen, reckless daring
- boldnessFearless readiness to act
- forwardnessUndue familiarity or boldness
impudence · gall · effrontery · unabashedness · impertinence · temerity · cheekiness · presumptuousness · indecency · indelicacy
hubris
Ruinous excessive confidence
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
- haughtinessDisdainful sense of superiority
pomposity · self-importance · boastfulness · presumption · overconfidence · smugness · superciliousness · vainglory · imperiousness · self-aggrandizement
preening
Grooming with vanity
- self-admirationExcessive regard for oneself
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- self-lovePrioritizing your own worth
self-absorption · conceitedness · primping · self-regard · peacocking · showing off · self-obsession · vainglory · dandyism · foppishness
- ego displaysarrogance, vanity, boasting, showboating, braggadocio
- audacityboldness, brazenness, audacity, chutzpah, gall
- egoego, egoism, big ego, egotism, egocentrism
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
- gracelessnessclumsiness, awkwardness, boorishness, rudeness, vulgarity
- haramshirk, polytheism, idolatry, apostasy, gambling
immodestymodesty
Absence of vanity
humility · modestness · self-effacement · humbleness · unpretentiousness