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SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-aggrandizement mean?

• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT (noun)
The noun SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT 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-AGGRANDIZEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT (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-aggrandizement" is a kind of...):

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

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