ego trip

ego trip
    n 1: an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence
         or to draw attention to your own importance [syn: {self-
         aggrandizement}, {self-aggrandisement}, {ego trip}]
    

65 Moby Thesaurus words for "ego trip":
      acquisitiveness, amour-propre, autism, autoeroticism, boast,
      careerism, complacency, consequentiality, egotism,
      fish for compliments, graspingness, greed, have no self-doubt,
      individualism, interest, know it all, narcism, narcissism,
      overproudness, overweening pride, personal aims, personal ambition,
      personal desires, personalism, possessiveness, privatism,
      remoteness, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-advancement,
      self-approbation, self-centeredness, self-complacency,
      self-congratulation, self-consideration, self-containment,
      self-content, self-delight, self-devotion, self-endearment,
      self-esteem, self-gratulation, self-importance, self-indulgence,
      self-infatuation, self-interest, self-interestedness,
      self-jealousy, self-love, self-occupation, self-pleasing,
      self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-seeking, self-serving,
      self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, self-worship, selfishness,
      selfism, smugness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity