SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-aggrandizement mean? 

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT (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-aggrandizement" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

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

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)