Self-aggrandizement

Quick meaning: Self-aggrandizement is a noun meaning Behaviour which increases one's own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance.

Meaning

Behaviour which increases one's own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance.

Example Sentences

Belarus was always going to be the most willing partner in Russia’s attempts at self-aggrandizement.

In your case, I fear, confession is exploitation by indirection, profit-making by ruse, self-aggrandizement at the expense of God.

[W]hat can selfish greed, what can self-aggrandizement and the most pitiless ambition effect against men who own to such discipline as this?

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money.

Word Forms

• self-aggrandizements

Synonyms for self-aggrandizement

Depending on context, synonyms include ego trip, self-aggrandisement.

Related Words

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