Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Excessively high regard for one's own importance or station; conceit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The feeling or the manner of one who too much obtrudes his sense of his own importance; egotism; pomposity.
Wiktionary
- n. An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, especially as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- n. an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
Etymologies
- self- + importance (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You should never set out to destroy the left or right, or conquer evil or good, because it will make you hallucinate delusions of self-importance.”
“Note that what is supposed to be an example of bad prose turns out to be a criticism of one character's "puerile humor and self-importance" and of the notion that "in a mad world only the madmen are sane," etc.”
“They have a grandiose sense of self-importance and entitlement, hog attention and crave admiration.”
The Huffington Post: Judith Orloff MD: Who's The Emotional Vampire In Your Life?
“In America, politicians are the modern day protagonist, and most of them commit acts of sexual folly due to an overinflated sense self-importance.”
“This shadow transmutes into wisdom by letting go of your self-importance and experiencing the enriching depth, expansiveness, and abundance of all life with equanimity.”
The Huffington Post: C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala
“This is what happens when you surround yourself with sycophants and your sense of self-importance and righteousness gets too bloated.”
“Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action.”
“Not only are they frighteninly ignorant, they seem to have acquired a heightened sense of self-importance.”
“And she often targeted their self-importance and other foibles for abuse, knowing it was the quickest way to cheer up her friend.”
“They have an inflated sense of their own self-importance and the deep need for admiration.”
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Pride
pique, vanity, hubris, plume, conceit, preen, arrogance, egotism, hauteur, self-love, supercilious, self-importance and 10 more...
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