The act or action of making oneself seem more important. An act of pride or boasting
His attempts at self-aggrandizement made him seem vain, boastful and, ironically, petty.
The act or practice of enhancing or exaggerating one's own importance, power, or reputation
an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance
self-aggrandizement in BRIT, also use self-aggrandisement disapproval If you say that someone is guilty of self-aggrandizement, you mean that they do certain things in order to make themselves more powerful, wealthy, or important. He was interested in service, not self-aggrandisement