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• n  an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
• n  an exaggerated opinion of your own importance

• But he is impossible to dislike, touches all political and sectarian bases and, in his complete lack of self-importance, is the anti-politician.
• The prominence and self-importance of many of the speakers here, coupled with a certain cultural sensitivity to behaving in ways that people from other countries might find .
• He really can't comprehend anything beyond the scope of his tiny, tiny little mind and it's hugely, hugely inflated sense of self-importance.

• ego
• egotism
• swelled head

News & Articles

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• Ex-NY Gov Spitzer offers life advice in new book
  Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is offering life advice in a new book, saying "self-importance" can lead to a "dangerous arrogance" that often ends badly...
  July 15, 2013 - News 10 NBC Rochester
• People,Places and Things
  NEW YORK - Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is offering life advice in a new book released as he campaigns for city comptroller, writing that "self-importance" can lead to a "dangerous arrogance" that often ends badly.
  July 14, 2013 - Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Quotes

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• Terence Cole in Turkish Press
  AWB misled the Australian government and the UN by hiding its activities through "a closed culture of superiority and impregnability, of dominance and self-importance", Cole said.
• Ted Strickland in Mansfield News Journal
  I think this interest in me has everything to do with Ohio and its perceived importance as a swing state, but I'm not letting it go to my head as far as a feeling of self-importance,Strickland said. "I feel it's a little preposterous of me...