self-aggrandizement.

Efforts to increase your own importance, power, or status, often with little regard for others.

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Words that belong together

• political self-aggrandizement
• blatant self-aggrandizement

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The ceremony became an occasion for self-aggrandizement rather than remembrance.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: character, interpretation. Commonness: moderately common.