SELF-AGGRANDISEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-aggrandisement mean? 

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-AGGRANDISEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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-aggrandisement" is a kind of...):

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