pridefulness

pridefulness
noun
a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
Syn: ↑pride
Ant: ↑humility (for: ↑pride)
Derivationally related forms: ↑prideful
Hypernyms: ↑feeling
Hyponyms:

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prideˈfulness noun
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Main Entry:pride

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  • pridefulness — noun see prideful …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • pridefulness — See pridefully. * * * …   Universalium

  • pridefulness — noun The state or condition of being prideful; pride …   Wiktionary

  • pridefulness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality of being arrogant: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, insolence, loftiness, lordliness, overbearingness, presumption, pride, proudness, superciliousness, superiority. See ATTITUDE …   English dictionary for students

  • pridefulness — pride·ful·ness …   English syllables

  • prideful — adjective Date: 15th century full of pride: as a. disdainful, haughty b. exultant, elated • pridefully adverb • pridefulness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • pride — prideful, adj. pridefully, adv. pridefulness, n. prideless, adj. pridelessly, adv. /pruyd/, n., v., prided, priding. n. 1. a high or inordinate opinion of one s own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or… …   Universalium

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  • conceit — Synonyms and related words: abstract thought, act of thought, affectation, aggressive self confidence, amour propre, aphorism, apothegm, apprehension, arrogance, assume, assumption, assurance, attitude, bee, believe, bluster, boast, boastfulness …   Moby Thesaurus

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