self-importance

/'selfim'pɔ:təns/
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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
  1. an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
  2. an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

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