The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-aggrandizement \Self`-ag*gran"dize*ment\, n. The aggrandizement of one's self.
Wiktionary
n. The act or action of making oneself seem more important. An act of pride or boasting.
WordNet
n. an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance [syn: self-aggrandisement, ego trip]
Usage examples of "self-aggrandizement".
Coupled with skilled questioning intended to bring forth every final detail, including self-abuse and compulsive overconsumption of Baby Ruths, Mars Bars, Butterfingers, significance of which in terms of sexual self-aggrandizement was first pointed out to me by this good and holy man.
Elderly presbyters bowed their heads respectfully as Hugh passed, and he paused to greet them with such unassuming sincerity that it was impossible to fault him for pride or self-aggrandizement.
Even while he was cursing the girl his cunning mind was already plotting, revenge for the Spencers, self-aggrandizement among his fellows for himself.
He stared at the slimy senator opposite him and wondered at what point and how he'd let himself be drawn away from the honorable path and into a pattern of careerism and self-aggrandizement.
I thought I could look to someone I admired to do the right thing, not out of self-aggrandizement, not out of self-enrichment, but simply because it was right.
To what extent are our heroisms, sacrifices, and self-aggrandizements the acting out of personae that we maintain?