#vanity

• Absolon — A famous literary character from Geoffrey Chaucer's work ('The Canterbury Tales' - The Miller's Tale), characterized by excessive foppishness, ridiculous vanity, and an obsessive concern with cleanliness and moral appearances. In the philosophy of manners, ethics, and criticism, Absolon's name is used as a behavioral pattern for minor hypocrisy, superficial puritanism, and the comical collapse of claims to virtue when confronted with vulgar reality.
• To admire oneself — To admire oneself excessively, often with a feeling of exaggerated pride, vanity, or narcissism; to view one's own physical qualities, achievements, or character traits with extreme satisfaction, completely ignoring the opinions or criticisms of others.
• Self-admiration — The act of admiring oneself or its result; excessive and often unjustified admiration for one's own person, appearance, intelligence, or achievements. In clinical psychology, it is considered a core component of narcissistic behavior and ego-centered personality disorders.
• Self-admired — Having admired oneself or being self-admired excessively; a person characterized by an exaggerated satisfaction with their own achievements, qualities, or physical appearance, often manifesting traits of vanity or egocentrism.
• Self-admiration — A feeling of deep, often exaggerated and uncritical admiration that a person harbors toward themselves, their own qualities, actions, or physical appearance; a state of eccentric self-satisfaction structurally approaching the manifestations of narcissism.
• Pretentious authorship — An ironic or depreciative term rarely used to designate the exaggerated behavior, attitude, or pretensions of authorship or creativity displayed by a person lacking real talent or academic recognition. It suggests a form of artificial writerly pride, often manifested through an obsession with self-promotion or the forced imposition of one's own writings within a social circle.