showing off

Strong matches

• displaying
• headlining
• highlighting
• presenting
• promoting
• pushing
• recommending
• showing
• starring
• turning

Weak matches

• calling attention to
• drawing attention to
• giving center stage to
• making much of
• pointing up
• turning the spotlight on

Strong matches

• assuming
• characterization
• depiction
• dramatics
• dramatizing
• enacting
• enactment
• feigning
• hamming
• histrionics
• imitating
• imitation
• impersonation
• improvisation
• mime
• mimicry
• pantomime
• performance
• playing
• portrayal
• portraying
• posing
• posturing
• pretending
• pretense
• putting
• rendition
• seeming
• simulating
• stagecraft
• stooging
• theatre
• theatricals

Weak match

• play acting

Strong matches

• air
• airs
• appearance
• artificiality
• facade
• front
• imitation
• insincerity
• mannerism
• pose
• pretense
• pretension
• pretentiousness
• put on
• sham
• show
• simulation

Weak matches

• false front
• going Hollywood
• putting on airs

Strong matches

• flashing
• immodesty

Weak matches

• exposing oneself
• indecent exposure
• self-display

Strong matches

• affectation
• array
• boast
• boasting
• brag
• braggadocio
• bragging
• bravado
• demonstration
• display
• exhibition
• flamboyance
• flash
• flourish
• fuss
• garishness
• magnificence
• pageant
• pageantry
• parade
• pomp
• pomposity
• pompousness
• pretending
• pretension
• pretentiousness
• put on
• shine
• show
• showiness
• spectacle
• splendor
• splurge
• swagger
• swank
• vainglory
• vaunt

Weak matches

• false front
• flaunting
• grandstand play
• parading
• vaunting
• window-dressing

Strongest matches

• arrogance
• pride

Strong matches

• affectation
• airs
• conceitedness
• display
• narcissism
• ostentation
• pretension
• self-love
• self-worship
• show
• smugness
• vainglory

Weak matches

• big-headedness
• ego trip
• self-admiration