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self-aggrandizement

self-aggrandizement noun: behaviour which increases one's own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance.

Noun

self-aggrandizement (countable and uncountable, plural self-aggrandizements)

  1. Behaviour which increases one's own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance.
    • [W]hat can selfish greed, what can self-aggrandizement and the most pitiless ambition effect against men who own to such discipline as this?1906, Anna Katharine Green, chapter 29, in The Chief Legatee
    • In your case, I fear, confession is exploitation by indirection, profit-making by ruse, self-aggrandizement at the expense of God.1907 September, Jack London, “A Day’s Lodging”, in Love of Life and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published December 1907, →OCLC, page 64

self-aggrandizement meaning in Tamil

self-aggrandizement in Tamil

தற்பெருக்கீடு

Examples of self-aggrandizement in a sentence

  • As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money.2001 February 25, Stacey D’Erasmo, “Here comes the neighborhood [review of Everyday People (2001) by Stewart O’Nan]”, in The New York...
  • Belarus was always going to be the most willing partner in Russia’s attempts at self-aggrandizement.2014 July 1, Frank Jacobs, “Welcome to Stanistan”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023:

Forms of self-aggrandizement

pluralself-aggrandizements

Origin of self-aggrandizement

From self- + aggrandizement.

Questions about self-aggrandizement

What does self-aggrandizement mean?
Self-aggrandizement means behaviour which increases one's own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance.
What is self-aggrandizement in Tamil?
Self-aggrandizement in Tamil is தற்பெருக்கீடு. See Self-aggrandizement meaning in Tamil.
How do you use self-aggrandizement in a sentence?
As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money.
What part of speech is self-aggrandizement?
Self-aggrandizement is a noun.
What is the plural of self-aggrandizement?
The plural of self-aggrandizement is self-aggrandizements.

Words near self-aggrandizement in the dictionary

  1. self-affirmations
  2. self-affliction
  3. self-afflictions
  4. self-aggrandisement
  5. self-aggrandize
  6. self-aggrandizement
  7. self-aggrandizements
  8. self-aggrandizing
  9. self-analysis
  10. self-annihilate
  11. self-annihilated

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