self-importance

Questions about self-importance

What does self-importance mean?

self-importance means "an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in self-importance?

self-importance has 4 syllables and divides as sel-f-im-por-tance under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for self-importance?

Close synonyms include ego, egotism, egotism, swelled head. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is self-importance a common word?

self-importance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.