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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ego, egotism, self-importancenoun

    an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

  2. egotism, self-importance, swelled headnoun

    an exaggerated opinion of your own importance

Wiktionary

  1. self-importancenoun

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

Wikipedia

  1. self-importance

    Egoism is a philosophy concerned with the role of the self, or ego, as the motivation and goal of one's own action. Different theories of egoism encompass a range of disparate ideas and can generally be categorized into descriptive or normative forms. That is, they may be interested in either describing that people do act in self-interest or prescribing that they should. Other definitions of egoism may instead emphasise action according to one's will rather than one's self-interest, and furthermore posit that this is a truer sense of egoism.The New Catholic Encyclopedia states of egoism that it "incorporates in itself certain basic truths: it is natural for man to love himself; he should moreover do so, since each one is ultimately responsible for himself; pleasure, the development of one's potentialities, and the acquisition of power are normally desirable." The moral censure of self-interest is a common subject of critique in egoist philosophy, with such judgments being examined as means of control and the result of power relations. Egoism may also reject that insight into one's internal motivation can arrive extrinsically, such as from psychology or sociology, though, for example, this is not present in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.

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  1. self-importance

    Self-importance refers to an exaggerated sense of one's own value or significance, often expressed by considering oneself superior to others and having an inflated sense of self-worth. It can involve being excessively focused on oneself, assuming that one's own opinions, ideas, or interests are more important than those of others.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Self-importancenoun

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

Editors Contribution

  1. Self-importance

    Self-importance is an exaggerated sense of one’s own value or importance. It is synonymous with arrogance.


    Submitted by anonymous on May 27, 2018  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-importance in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-importance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of self-importance in a Sentence

  1. Jean Anouilh:

    Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

  2. Jean Anouilh:

    Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

  3. Stephen Jay Gould:

    Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

  4. Hazlitt:

    A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.


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