self-display

noun

self-dis·​play ˌself-di-ˈsplā 

plural self-displays

: the act or an instance of showing off or exhibiting oneself usually in an ostentatious manner : self-exhibition

He disliked self-display, making a scene, anything that threatened to rock the social boat.

—James Trilling

… reveled in the kind of self-display that a bourgeois woman was supposed to avoid …

—Laura Auricchio

Examples of self-display in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

My body had become a walking sign of misery and righteousness, slow death and supremacy, self-erasure and self-display. — Anna Shechtman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024

Swift’s big-screen self-display catches the youth of the Great Reset at their most gullible. — Armond White, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1806, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for self-display

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