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inflationnoun the quality or state of appearing or trying to appear more important or more valuable than is the casethe personal essay accompanying his college application was devoid of the inflation and self-aggrandizement that all too often is found in such writings affectation, affectedness, grandiosity, pretense(or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness arrogance, bumptiousness, complacency, conceit, egotism, hauteur, imperiousness, pompousness, presumptuousness, pride, self-aggrandizement, self-assertion, self-assumption, self-conceit, self-consequence, self-glorification, self-importance, self-satisfaction, smugness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanitydisdain, haughtiness, lordliness, snobbery, snobbishness, superciliousness, superiorityconfidence, presumption, self-assurance, self-confidence, surenessboastfulness, braggadocioaggressiveness, assertiveness, audaciousness, boldness, brassiness, cheekiness, cockiness, forwardness, impudence, insolence, rudenessgrandiloquenceflamboyance, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, mummery, ostentation, ostentatiousness, show, showiness demureness, down-to-earthness, humbleness, humility, lowliness, meekness, modestybashfulness, diffidence, shyness, timiditynaturalness, sincerity in the 14th century |