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SELF-AGGRANDISEMENT

• SELF-AGGRANDISEMENT (noun)
The noun SELF-AGGRANDISEMENT has 1 sense:

1. an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance

Familiarity information: SELF-AGGRANDISEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

• SELF-AGGRANDISEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ego trip; self-aggrandisement; self-aggrandizement

Hypernyms ("self-aggrandisement" is a kind of...):

aggrandisement; aggrandizement; elevation (the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something)

"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
(English proverb)
"Time is gold."
(Albanian proverb)
"A friend is the one that lends a hand during the time of need."
(Arabic proverb)
"Those who had some shame are dead."
(Egyptian proverb)

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