The quality or state of being boastful; a tendency toward excessive bragging or pride about one's achievements.
Boastful + -ness (noun suffix). Creates an abstract noun representing the characteristic or quality of being inclined to boast.
Medieval philosophers argued about whether boastfulness was the worst kind of pride—they even ranked different types of vanity, showing that humans have always been obsessed with categorizing different ways people brag!
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