self-importance
Excessive personal pride
Self-importance is an inflated sense of one's own significance or worth.
The term is almost always negative, suggesting someone takes themselves too seriously or demands more deference than they deserve: His self-importance made him insufferable at meetings.
A self-important person acts as though their time, opinions, or presence matter more than others'.
Ruinous excessive confidence
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
- smugnessExcessive pride in oneself
- haughtinessDisdainful sense of superiority
- superciliousnessScornful sense of superiority
egotism · overconfidence · presumption · snobbery · condescension · contemptuousness · imperiousness · disdain
Excessively inflated language
- grandiosePretentiously impressive in scale
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- pontificalDogmatically self-important
- ostentatiousShowily excessive
highfalutin · magisterial · bloviating · grandstanding · puffery · bluster · showboating · strutting
Satisfaction from one's achievements
- assertivenessConfident self-expression quality
- egocentrismViewing all through oneself
- egoismDoctrine of self-motivation
- me-firstPrioritizing personal advantage
Ostentatious self-display
- preeningGrooming with vanity
- superficialityAbsence of meaningful depth
- attention-seekingCraving others' focus
- validation-seekingNeeding external confirmation of worth
hubris
Ruinous excessive confidence
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
- smugnessExcessive pride in oneself
- haughtinessDisdainful sense of superiority
superciliousness · egotism · overconfidence · presumption · snobbery · condescension · contemptuousness · imperiousness · disdain · high-handedness
bombastic
Excessively inflated language
- grandiosePretentiously impressive in scale
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- pontificalDogmatically self-important
ostentatious · highfalutin · magisterial · bloviating · grandstanding · puffery · bluster · showboating · strutting · preening
pride
Satisfaction from one's achievements
- assertivenessConfident self-expression quality
- egocentrismViewing all through oneself
- egoismDoctrine of self-motivation
peacocking
Ostentatious self-display
- preeningGrooming with vanity
- superficialityAbsence of meaningful depth
- attention-seekingCraving others' focus
- snobberysnob, snobbery, snooty, elitism, snoot
- egoego, egoism, big ego, egotism, egocentrism
- vanityconceit, narcissism, ego, hubris, arrogance
- narcissismnarcissist, narcissistic personality disorder, ego, vanity, arrogance
- pretentiousnesspretentious, pretentiousness, pretension, pompous, pomposity
- ego behaviorsbragging, boasting, showing off, arrogance, vanity
self-importancehumility
Freedom from arrogance
modesty · humbleness · self-effacement · unpretentiousness · meekness
self-importanceshyness
Tendency toward social timidity
reserve · bashfulness · reservedness · timidity · timidness
self, important, import, importance, unimportant, selfless, self-esteem, self-important, importantly