self-praise

Questions about self-praise

What does self-praise mean?

self-praise means "speaking of yourself in superlatives".

How many syllables are in self-praise?

self-praise has 2 syllables and divides as self--praise 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-praise?

Close synonyms include boast, boasting, jactitation. 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-praise a common word?

self-praise 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.