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self-aggrandizements

self-aggrandizements is the plural of self-aggrandizement.

Meaning of self-aggrandizement

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

Questions about self-aggrandizements

What is self-aggrandizements the plural of?
Self-aggrandizements is the plural of self-aggrandizement.

Words near self-aggrandizements in the dictionary

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

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