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self-identity |
self-ignorance |
self-ignorant |
self-immolation |
self-imparting |
self-importance
| self-important
| self-imposed
| self-imposture
| self-improvement
| self-incrimination
self-importance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun self-importance has 2 senses
- self-importance(n = noun.feeling) ego, egotism - an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others; Array is a kind of pride, pridefulness
- self-importance(n = noun.attribute) egotism, swelled head - an exaggerated opinion of your own importance; Array is a kind of conceit, conceitedness, vanity
Derived form adjective self-important1
has particulars: superiority complex
Derived form adjective self-important1
CIDE DICTIONARY
self-importance, n.
An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
self-importance, n. a high opinion of oneself; pompousness.
Derivative
self-important adj. self-importantly adv.
THESAURUS
self-importance
accent, amour-propre, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, autoeroticism, belief, certitude, cocksureness, complacency, concern, concernment, confidence, confidentness, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, conviction, courage, ego trip, egoism, egotism, emphasis, excellence, faith, grandiloquence, high order, high rank, hubris, import, importance, inflation, interest, mark, materiality, merit, moment, narcism, narcissism, note, orotundity, overconfidence, overproudness, oversureness, overweening, overweening pride, overweeningness, paramountcy, poise, pomposity, pompousness, pontificality, pontification, positiveness, precedence, preeminence, pride, primacy, priority, security, self-admiration, self-approbation, self-assurance, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-congratulation, self-consequence, self-content, self-delight, self-endearment, self-esteem, self-gratulation, self-infatuation, self-love, self-reliance, self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-worship, settled belief, significance, smugness, stress, stuffiness, subjective certainty, superiority, supremacy, sureness, surety, trust, turgidity, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, value, vanity, weight, worth
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