Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unduly high opinion of oneself.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One's own opinion.
- noun The tendency to form one's own opinion without considering that of others to be worth much consideration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion.
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Examples
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By coming to view the recent events in her life as random occurrences rather than as part of a single narrative that confirms her low self-opinion, Ash gains confidence and a sense of control.
Books 2010
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By coming to view the recent events in her life as random occurrences rather than as part of a single narrative that confirms her low self-opinion, Ash gains confidence and a sense of control.
Selections 2010
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Palin's self-opinion of being the cutest little trick in toeshoes indicates that shes been inhaling too much AquaNet.
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I particularly like your totem and inflated self-opinion
In Which We Answer The Rhetorical Questions Posed By Your Queries 2010
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There are some that have a self-opinion that is far over rated, no question.
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By coming to view the recent events in her life as random occurrences rather than as part of a single narrative that confirms her low self-opinion, Ash gains confidence and a sense of control.
Reviews 2010
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Thank you for doing what you do and try not to read the positive comments, they'll bloat your self-opinion too much and then the blog might suffer.
Synthesis: Putting It Together BikeSnobNYC 2009
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The treasured ideas of self-importance and self-opinion — of ideal birth and quality, had become more precious to him, (like the hoard to the miser) because he could only enjoy them in secret.
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So much is there of self-opinion, even in insanity, that the conviction of his having entertained and expressed an unfounded prediction with so much vehemence seemed to operate like loss of blood on the human frame, to modify and lower the fever of the brain.
The Talisman 2008
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Darsie, with no more than the reasonable share of self-opinion common to most youths when they approach twenty-one, knew not how to explain her conduct.
Redgauntlet 2008
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