Noun
The aggrandizement of one's self.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe best philanthropy is anonymous charity. When you're doing it for the right reasons, and not to tell everyone how nice you are. That's self-aggrandizement. That's also OK: if you want credit, that's OK. But the higher giving is anonymous giving. Gene Simmons
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement. Heather Donahue
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement. Richard Weaver
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self. Charles Cooley
Being agglutinated with hegemony and self-aggrandizement they don’t want to blend with the other section of our intellectuals. Source: Internet
Our society runs on self-aggrandizement for men and self-abasement for women; talk of self-love terrifies men (for whom it means admitting interdependence and emotionality) while women can only expect that I’m recommending brutality and callousness. Source: Internet