Word Meanings - SELF-IMPORTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SELF-IMPORTANCE)

• Arrogance
• Haughtiness
• contemptuousness
• overbearingness
• hauteur
• browbeating
• loftiness
• self-conceit
• stateliness
• vainglory
• insolence
• self-importance
• assumption
• discourtesy

Related words: (words related to SELF-IMPORTANCE)

• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• BROWBEATING
  The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.
• LOFTINESS
  The state or quality of being lofty.
• SELF-CONCEITED
  Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited. -- Self`-con*ceit"ed*ness, n.
• VAINGLORY
  Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness. He had nothing of vainglory. Bacon. The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his neck i' the combat, he'll break't himself
• DISCOURTESY
  Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.
• BROWBEAT
  To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten.
• HAUTEUR
  Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.
• ASSUMPTION
  The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism. 5. The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath. & Greek Churches) (more info) 1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The
• HAUGHTINESS
  The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance. Syn. -- Arrogance; disdain; contemptuousness; superciliousness; loftiness. -- Haughtiness, Arrogance, Disdain. Haughtiness denotes the expression of conscious and proud superiority; arrogance is
• STATELINESS
  The quality or state of being stately. For stateliness and majesty, what is comparable to a horse Dr. H. More.
• ARROGANCE
  The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue
• INSOLENCE
  1. The quality of being unusual or novel. Spenser. 2. The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal imprudence. Flown with insolence and wine. Milton.
• SELF-IMPORTANCE
  An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.
• CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
  Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.