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self importance
noun as in arrogance
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in assumption
Strongest match
noun as in pretension
noun as in vainglory
noun as in egoism
Strong matches
- arrogance
- assurance
- boastfulness
- boasting
- bragging
- conceit
- conceitedness
- egomania
- egotism
- gasconade
- haughtiness
- insolence
- megalomania
- narcissism
- ostentation
- overconfidence
- presumption
- pride
- self-absorption
- self-confidence
- self-importance
- self-interest
- self-love
- self-possession
- self-regard
- self-worship
- selfishness
- superiority
- vainglory
- vanity
noun as in bigheadedness
Weak matches
noun as in egocentricity
noun as in egocentrism
noun as in egomania
noun as in grandioseness
noun as in grandiosity
noun as in loftiness
Strong matches
- airs
- aloofness
- audacity
- bluster
- braggadocio
- brass
- cheek
- chutzpah
- conceit
- conceitedness
- contemptuousness
- crust
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- ego
- egotism
- gall
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- high-handedness
- hubris
- imperiousness
- insolence
- lordliness
- nerve
- ostentation
- overbearingness
- pomposity
- pompousness
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- pridefulness
- priggishness
- self-importance
- self-love
- smugness
- superciliousness
- superiority
- swagger
- vanity
Weak matches
noun as in lordliness
Strong matches
- airs
- aloofness
- audacity
- bluster
- braggadocio
- brass
- cheek
- chutzpah
- conceit
- conceitedness
- contemptuousness
- crust
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- ego
- egotism
- gall
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- high-handedness
- hubris
- imperiousness
- insolence
- loftiness
- nerve
- ostentation
- overbearingness
- pomposity
- pompousness
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- pridefulness
- priggishness
- self-importance
- self-love
- smugness
- superciliousness
- superiority
- swagger
- vanity
Weak matches
noun as in narcissism
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in overbearingness
Strong matches
- airs
- aloofness
- audacity
- bluster
- braggadocio
- brass
- cheek
- chutzpah
- conceit
- conceitedness
- contemptuousness
- crust
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- ego
- egotism
- gall
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- high-handedness
- hubris
- imperiousness
- insolence
- loftiness
- lordliness
- nerve
- ostentation
- pomposity
- pompousness
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- pridefulness
- priggishness
- self-importance
- self-love
- smugness
- superciliousness
- superiority
- swagger
- vanity
Weak matches
noun as in pompousness
noun as in pridefulness
Strong matches
- airs
- aloofness
- audacity
- bluster
- braggadocio
- brass
- cheek
- chutzpah
- conceit
- conceitedness
- contemptuousness
- crust
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- ego
- egotism
- gall
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- high-handedness
- hubris
- imperiousness
- insolence
- loftiness
- lordliness
- nerve
- ostentation
- overbearingness
- pomposity
- pompousness
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- priggishness
- self-importance
- self-love
- smugness
- superciliousness
- superiority
- swagger
- vanity
Weak matches
noun as in proudness
Weak matches
- airs
- aloofness
- audacity
- bluster
- braggadocio
- brass
- cheek
- chutzpah
- conceit
- conceitedness
- contemptuousness
- crust
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- ego
- egotism
- gall
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- high-handedness
- hubris
- imperiousness
- insolence
- loftiness
- lordliness
- nerve
- ostentation
- overbearance
- overbearingness
- pomposity
- pompousness
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- pridefulness
- priggishness
- scornfulness
- self-importance
- self-love
- smugness
- superciliousness
- superiority
- swagger
- vanity
noun as in self-absorption
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in self-centeredness
Strong matches
- arrogance
- assurance
- boastfulness
- boasting
- bragging
- conceit
- conceitedness
- egocentrism
- egomania
- egotism
- gasconade
- haughtiness
- insolence
- megalomania
- narcissism
- ostentation
- overconfidence
- presumption
- pride
- self-absorption
- self-confidence
- self-importance
- self-interest
- self-love
- self-possession
- self-regard
- self-worship
- selfishness
- superiority
- vainglory
- vanity
noun as in self-involvement
Weak matches
- arrogance
- assurance
- boastfulness
- boasting
- bragging
- conceit
- conceitedness
- egocentricity
- egocentrism
- egomania
- egotism
- gasconade
- haughtiness
- insolence
- megalomania
- narcissism
- ostentation
- overconfidence
- presumption
- pride
- self-absorption
- self-admiration
- self-centeredness
- self-confidence
- self-importance
- self-interest
- self-love
- self-possession
- self-regard
- self-worship
- selfishness
- superiority
- swellheadedness
- vainglory
- vanity
- vaunting
noun as in superciliousness
Strong matches
- airs
- aloofness
- audacity
- bluster
- braggadocio
- brass
- cheek
- chutzpah
- conceit
- conceitedness
- contemptuousness
- crust
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- ego
- egotism
- gall
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- high-handedness
- hubris
- imperiousness
- insolence
- loftiness
- lordliness
- nerve
- ostentation
- overbearingness
- pomposity
- pompousness
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- pridefulness
- priggishness
- self-importance
- self-love
- smugness
- superiority
- swagger
- vanity
Weak matches
noun as in vainness
Weak matches
- amour-propre
- arrogance
- assurance
- boastfulness
- boasting
- bragging
- conceit
- conceitedness
- ego
- egocentricity
- egoism
- egomania
- 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
noun as in conceit
noun as in egoism/egotism
Weak matches
- arrogance
- assurance
- boastfulness
- boasting
- bragging
- conceit
- conceitedness
- egocentricity
- egomania
- gasconade
- haughtiness
- insolence
- megalomania
- narcissism
- ostentation
- overconfidence
- preoccupation with self
- 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
noun as in gall
noun as in hauteur
noun as in hubris
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Example Sentences
Nagrani, 42, is not one of those designers wrapped up in self-importance.
When my ge-generation got too intoxicated with self importance, the punks came along and yelled at us.
Self-awareness versus self-importance—that is the primary divide between a real steak shop and a tourist trap.
Karadzic let out a few other reminders of his presidential tendencies and self-importance.
His countenance, his voice, his gestures, indicated boundless self-importance.
With an air of self-importance he cautioned the house to beware; if they excited that cry again, it would be at their peril.
He met his son on the lad's own note of self-importance and connived with him to provoke her amusing impertinences.
For a village of the self-importance of Fairbridge, the public buildings were very few and very mean.
With a bland, soft manner, and an air compounded of diffidence and self-importance, Mr. Gleeson made his approaches.
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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to self-importance, such as: pomposity, ego, egoism, pompousness, vainglory, and vanity.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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