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PRIDEFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A feeling of self-respect and personal worth
Synonyms:
pride; pridefulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("pridefulness" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pridefulness"):
dignity; self-regard; self-respect; self-worth (the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect)
self-esteem; self-pride (a feeling of pride in yourself)
ego; egotism; self-importance (an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others)
amour propre; conceit; self-love; vanity (feelings of excessive pride)
Derivation:
prideful (joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success)
