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Definition: Self-importance |
Self-importanceNoun1. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others. 2. An exaggerated opinion of your own importance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-importance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonyms: Self-importanceSynonyms: ego (n), egotism (n), swelled head (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Self-importance |
| English words defined with "self-importance": big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy ♦ cock-a-hoop, conceited, crowing ♦ Donnism ♦ egotistic, egotistical ♦ self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing, self-conceited, swelled, swollen, swollen-headed ♦ vain, vainglorious. (references) |
| "Self-importance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Self-importance" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.3% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-importance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | siguri në vetvete e tepërt, vetëbesim (assurance, overconfidence, self confidence, self esteem, self sufficiency, self-assurance). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самомнение (conceit, egotism, importance, self esteem, self-conceit, vanity), важност (account, concern, concernment, gravity, import, importance, interest, magnitude, materiality, moment, pith, pomposity, seriousness, significance, solemnity, stress, value, weight), надутост (airiness, bombast, flatulence, flatulency, fustian, grandiloquence, haughtiness, inflation, magniloquence, pomposity, theatricality, uppishness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 高傲. (various references) | |
Czech | domýšlivost (arrogance, cockiness, conceit, haughtiness, uppishness). (various references) | |
Finnish | itsepuolustusrakkaus (conceit). (various references) | |
German | selbstbewusstsein (ego, poise, self confidence, self consciousness, self-assurance, self-awareness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fontoskodás (buckram, bumbledom, bustling, cockiness, fuss, fussiness, officiousness, pedantry, pragmatism, priggishness), elbizakodottság (cockiness, cock-sureness, confidence, flatulence, flatulency, immodesty, pretension, pretentiousness, self-confidence, side), önteltség (arrogance, complacence, complacency, conceit, confidence, coxcombry, egotism, false pride, loftiness, perkiness, self satisfaction, self sufficiency, self-confidence). (various references) | |
Italian | presunzione boria. (various references) | |
Korean | 자존 (self-respect). (various references) | |
Manx | corvian (conceit, egotism, vanity). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elf-importancesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vaidade (airs, conceit, concetto, flatulence, flatulency, presumption, pretension, pride, self-conceit, vainglory, vanity, vaunt), presunção (airs, arrogance, assumption, assurance, conceit, concetto, coxcombry, daring, pragmatism, presumption, pretension, puppyism, self-assurance, self-conceit, self-sufficiency, self-support, surmise, swagger, swank, vainglory, vanity), pomposidade (pomposity). (various references) | |
Romanian | suficienţã, vanitate (complacency, conceit, coquettishness, futility, importance, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vanity), orgoliu (conceitedness, self-pride, vainglory, vanity), importanţã (account, amount, bearing, concern, consequence, consideration, extent, gravity, greatness, importance, interest, magnitude, matter, moment, pith, prominence, relevance, relevancy, relief, significance, store, value, weight), înfumurare (arrogance, pragmatism, pride, self esteem, self-opinion, vanity). (various references) | |
Russian | самомнение (big head, conceit, egotism, self-conceit, swelled head). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | samovažnost. (various references) | |
Spanish | presunción (assumption, conceit, conjecture, pomposity, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, priggishness, self-assertion, smugness). (various references) | |
Swedish | högfärdsgalen (bursting with self-importance). (various references) | |
Turkish | kendini birşey sanma (self-assertion, stuffiness), kendini beğenmişlik (egoism, egotrip, hoity toity, inflation, megalomania, pomposity, pride, self-conceit, smugness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самовеличання, зарозумілість (arrogance, egotism, haughtiness, loftiness, lordliness, outrecuidance, self esteem, self-conceit). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự lên mặt ta đây, sự cho ta l quan trọng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "self-importance" (pronounced 'Self`-im*por"tance'): importance, inductance, Omittance, Permittance, Pittance, Portance, Potance, Readmittance, remittance, transmittance, unimportance. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-i-l-m-n-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: ceremonials, clinometers, colemanites, complainers, elastomeric, impersonate, importances, perfections, permeations, planimeters, pratincoles, prelections, reflections, salinometer, sempiternal, trampolines. | |
-4 letters: arecolines, centesimal, centralise, centralism, centrioles, ceremonial, clinometer, colemanite, compensate, complainer, complaints, cremations, epicentral, escarpment, falconries, fireplaces, florescent, forcemeats, forecastle, fornicates, fortalices, fromenties, imperfects, impersonal, implanters, importance, impotences, imprecates, incomplete, interfaces, interlaces, interlopes, interspace, latecomers, lemniscate. | |
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