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Boasting
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exhibitionism, flashiness |
| Synonyms: | affectation, array, boast, boasting, brag, braggadocio, bragging, bravado, demonstration, display, exhibition, false front, flamboyance, flash*, flaunting, flourish, fuss, garishness, grandstand play, magnificence, pageant, pageantry, parade, parading, pomp, pomposity, pompousness, pretending, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, shine*, show, showiness, showing off, showoff, spectacle, splendor, splurge, swagger*, swaggering, swank, vainglory, vaunt, vaunting, window-dressing |
| Antonyms: | modesty, plainness, quiet, reservation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vainglorious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boastful, proud |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, blowing one's own horn, boasting, bragging, cavalier, cocky*, conceited, egotistic, egotistical, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, huffy, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, self-important, snobbish, snooty, strutting, stuck-up, swaggering, vain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flatulence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pomposity |
| Synonyms: | babble, boasting, bombast, claptrap, empty talk, fustian, hot air, idle words, turgidity, twaddle, windiness |
| Main Entry: | big talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boastful talk |
| Synonyms: | boasting, bragging, exaggeration, fancy talk, fine talk, fish story, gas, hogwash, hot air, self-aggrandizing, tall story, tall talk |
| Main Entry: | egoism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-centeredness |
| Synonyms: | arrogance, assurance, boastfulness, boasting, bragging, conceit, conceitedness, egocentricity, egomania, egotism, gasconade, haughtiness, insolence, megalomania, narcissism, ostentation, overconfidence, presumption, pride, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-confidence, self-importance, self-interest, self-love, self-possession, self-regard, self-worship, selfishness, superiority, swellheadedness, vainglory, vanity, vaunting |
| Notes: | egoism is an attempt to get excessive personal recognition for yourself while egotism is an exaggerated opinion of your own importance |
| Antonyms: | altruism, selflessness |
| Main Entry: | egotistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceited |
| Synonyms: | affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, bragging, conceited, egocentric, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, haughty, idiosyncratic, inborn, individualistic, inflated, ingrained, inherent, inner-directed, intimate, intrinsic, introverted, isolated, narcissistic, obsessive, opinionated, personal, pompous, prideful, proud, puffed up, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-centered, self-important, snobbish, stuck-up, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious |
| Antonyms: | altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, selfless, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | fanfaronade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boast |
| Synonyms: | bluster, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bravado, crowing, gasconade, gloating, rodomontade, swagger, swaggering |
| Main Entry: | hyperbolism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hog |
| Main Entry: | narcissism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | egotism |
| Synonyms: | amour-propre, arrogance, assurance, boastfulness, boasting, bragging, conceit, conceitedness, ego, egocentricity, egoism, egomania, gasconade, haughtiness, insolence, ostentation, overconfidence, presumption, pride, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-confidence, self-importance, self-interest, self-love, self-possession, self-regard, self-worship, selfishness, superiority, swellheadedness, vainglory, vainness, vanity, vaunting |
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