Word Meanings - SELF-EXALTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of exalting one's self, or the state of being so exalted.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SELF-EXALTATION)

• Egotism
• Conceit
• vanity
• selfassertion
• self-conceit
• self-praise
• self-exaltation
• conceitedness
• Pride
• Loftiness
• haughtiness
• lordliness
• arrogance
• conceit
• vainglory

Related words: (words related to SELF-EXALTATION)

• LORDLINESS
  The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• VANITY BOX
  A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• LOFTINESS
  The state or quality of being lofty.
• SELF-CONCEITED
  Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited. -- Self`-con*ceit"ed*ness, n.
• VAINGLORY
  Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness. He had nothing of vainglory. Bacon. The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his neck i' the combat, he'll break't himself
• EGOTISM
  The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self- praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of
• CONCEIT
  conception, fr. concipere to conceive: cf. OF. p. p. nom. conciez 1. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Bacon. A man wise
• SELF-EXALTATION
  The act of exalting one's self, or the state of being so exalted.
• SELF-PRAISE
  Praise of one's self.
• CONCEITLESS
  Without wit; stupid. Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless. To be seduced by thy flattery Shak.
• PRIDE
  A small European lamprey ; -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
• VANITY
  1. The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Eccl. i. 2. Here I may well show the vanity
• PRIDEFUL
  Full of pride; haughty. Tennyson. -- Pride"ful*ly, adv. -- Pride"ful-ness, n.
• HAUGHTINESS
  The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance. Syn. -- Arrogance; disdain; contemptuousness; superciliousness; loftiness. -- Haughtiness, Arrogance, Disdain. Haughtiness denotes the expression of conscious and proud superiority; arrogance is
• ARROGANCE
  The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue
• CONCEITED
  1. Endowed with fancy or imagination. He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. Knolles. 2. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain. If you think me too conceited Or to passion quickly heated. Swift. Conceited of their
• PRIDELESS
  Without pride. Chaucer.
• MISCONCEIT
  Misconception.
• PRECONCEIT
  An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a preconception. Hooker.