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
James Trilling… reveled in the kind of self-display that a bourgeois woman was supposed to avoid …—Laura Auricchio
Laura AuricchioExamples of self-display in a Sentence
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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, 9 Feb. 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
But this amplifies the problem staged afresh with every book, that of self-making, self-display: sculpting the self into a glittering object for the Other to cherish or stomp to shards.
—Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
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Anna Shechtman, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 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
But this amplifies the problem staged afresh with every book, that of self-making, self-display: sculpting the self into a glittering object for the Other to cherish or stomp to shards.
—Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
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“Self-display.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-display. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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