self-importance
/'selfim'pɔ:təns/
Definition
Noun: 1. An exaggerated opinion of your own importance: A belief that you are more significant or valuable than you truly are, often without corresponding achievements or status. 2. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others: A sense of being better or more important than other people, characterized by arrogance or pomposity.
Usage
Self-importance is an uncountable noun used to describe a person's character or attitude. It is typically used in a critical or negative sense to highlight someone's excessive pride or arrogance.
Examples
- His self-importance was evident in the way he demanded special treatment at every meeting.
- The manager's self-importance prevented her from listening to feedback from her team.
- She spoke with such self-importance that it was hard to take her claims seriously.
Advanced Usage
- To be full of one's own self-importance: To be completely absorbed in and displaying an exaggerated sense of one's own significance.
- Ever since his promotion, he's been full of his own self-importance.
- A sense of self-importance: A feeling or belief in one's own high status or value.
- The celebrity arrived with an enormous sense of self-importance.
Variants and Related Words
- Self-important (adjective): Having or showing an exaggerated sense of one's own value or importance.
- He gave a self-important speech that bored everyone.
Synonyms
- Arrogance: The quality of being unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than others.
- Conceit: Excessive pride in oneself.
- Pomposity: The quality of being too serious and showing that you think you are very important.
- Egotism: The tendency to talk excessively about oneself and have an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
Antonyms
- Humility: The quality of having a modest or low view of one's own importance.
- Modesty: The quality of not being too proud or confident about yourself or your abilities.
Noun
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an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
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an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
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