Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Excessively high regard for one's own importance or station; conceit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The feeling or the manner of one who too much obtrudes his sense of his own importance; egotism; pomposity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
exaggerated estimate of one's ownimportance ormerit , especially as manifested by theconduct ormanners ;self-conceit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- noun an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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They have a grandiose sense of self-importance and entitlement, hog attention and crave admiration.
Judith Orloff MD: Who's The Emotional Vampire In Your Life? Judith Orloff MD 2011
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In America, politicians are the modern day protagonist, and most of them commit acts of sexual folly due to an overinflated sense self-importance.
Jennifer Ketcham: The Business of Politics, Sex and Sexual Politics: Goodbye Anthony Weiner Jennifer Ketcham 2011
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This is what happens when you surround yourself with sycophants and your sense of self-importance and righteousness gets too bloated.
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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.
C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala C. Clinton Sidle 2011
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They have a grandiose sense of self-importance and entitlement, hog attention and crave admiration.
Judith Orloff MD: Who's The Emotional Vampire In Your Life? Judith Orloff MD 2011
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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.
Book Reviewing 2010
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In America, politicians are the modern day protagonist, and most of them commit acts of sexual folly due to an overinflated sense self-importance.
Jennifer Ketcham: The Business of Politics, Sex and Sexual Politics: Goodbye Anthony Weiner Jennifer Ketcham 2011
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They have a grandiose sense of self-importance and entitlement, hog attention and crave admiration.
Judith Orloff MD: Who's The Emotional Vampire In Your Life? Judith Orloff MD 2011
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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.
C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala C. Clinton Sidle 2011
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