Entitledness

Quick meaning: Entitledness is a noun meaning The quality of feeling entitled, convinced of one's own deservingness or superiority, and of shifting blame and responsibility to others; demandingness; pretense.

Meaning

The quality of feeling entitled, convinced of one's own deservingness or superiority, and of shifting blame and responsibility to others; demandingness; pretense.

Example Sentences

All the boys seemed to be working hard to affect the louche attitude, the “Under My Thumb” air of sexual entitledness, the thatchy, unkempt hair of a young Mick Jagger.

The attitude of the beloved is never one of merit or entitledness: "I had this coming," but precisely the opposite: "I don't deserve this." As the poets are well aware, the beloved never feels worthy of the advances of the lover.

[…] constant focus on his self-image, his notion of being special (set apart from others and superior to them), and the associated insistence that ordinary rules of reality did not pertain to him. At times, there was a hostile entitledness about him.

Figure 11.1 pictures this process of perceived need gradually deteriorating into outright 'Pay Me!' Aid officials the world over have in the past reported that a sustained flow of aid eventually results in a culture of 'entitledness' (Gergen and Gergen, 1971).

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pretentiosity, pretension, deservingness, pretensiveness, pretentiousness, deservedness.

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