pridefulness

Inflated sense of importance

Pridefulness is the quality of being prideful—having or showing excessive pride or self-regard.

The word adds little that prideful or pride alone doesn't convey, and appears mainly in religious or moralistic contexts warning against vanity: His pridefulness was his undoing.

arrogance

haughtiness

Disdainful sense of superiority

smugness · self-importance · pomposity · boastfulness · braggadocio · overconfidence · presumption · imperiousness · high-handedness · loftiness

vanity

narcissism

Excessive admiration of oneself

peacocking · primping · self-absorption · conceitedness · egotism · self-obsession · superficiality · showing-off · strutting · posturing

self-regard

self-esteem

One's sense of worth

self-assurance · self-image · confidence · self-reliance · self-satisfaction · self-congratulation · self-admiration · self-importance · self-glorification · self-praise

Opposites
self-regard and ego

pridefulnesshumility

Freedom from arrogance

humbleness · modesty · meekness · unpretentiousness · lowliness

moral stance toward self

pridefulnessshame

Painful awareness of failure

shamefacedness · self-reproach · contrition · remorse · mortification

moral stance toward self vs. others

pridefulnessaltruism

Prioritizing others' wellbeing

selflessness · egolessness · unselfishness · self-denial · servility

Family

pride, proudly, proudest, prideful, prouder, proudness, self-pride

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