Egoboost

Quick meaning: Egoboost is a noun meaning (informal) Something that makes one feel better about oneself.

Meaning

(informal) Something that makes one feel better about oneself.

Example Sentences

“Tuckerizing” is a private, ‘inside’ thing, a way of expressing friendship and giving an egoboost to admired and respected people.

Raju gets a niche in her heart precisely because of his appreciation of her art, an appreciation that she sorely needs as an egoboost.

To commit an act so horrible, at least by the standards of contemporary society, an act so vilified, and to get totally and utterly away with it—well, one couldn’t help but get a little egoboost out of that.

I hated to think it was due to some self-aggrandizing cockholster clutching at power for an egoboost, so it was probably some petty little reg-wanker hoping that by enforcing “procedures” he’d make a name for himself.

Word Forms

• egoboosts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include self-exaltation, boast, self-opinion, exhilarant, self-congratulation, superconfidence.

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