self-aggrandizement

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Behaviour which increases one's own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance.

   [W]hat can selfish greed, what can self-aggrandizement and the most pitiless ambition effect against men who own to such discipline as this?

2. 2
   noun

   an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance

Etymology

From self- + aggrandizement.