Synonyms of the word

jactitation

• n. bragging or boasting, especially in a false manner to another's detriment.
• n. (medicine) extreme restlessness; tossing and turning in bed.

boast

• n. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
• n. (squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
• v. (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
• v. (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
• v. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
• v. (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot.
• v. (ergative) To possess something special.
• v. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
• v. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form…

boasting

• v. present participle of boast.
• n. The making of boasts.

jactation

• n. A tossing or shaking of the body; physical agitation, especially while asleep or confined to bed by ilness;…
• n. The action of throwing.
• n. Boasting; bragging; showing off.

lie

• v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
• v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
• v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
• v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
• v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
• v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
• n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
• n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
• v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
• n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
• n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
• n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

prevarication

• n. (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
• n. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
• n. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
• n. (law, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making…
• n. (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

queasiness

• n. The state of being queasy; nausea.
• n. Psychological discomfort at the prospect of having to deal with a particular issue.

restlessness

• n. The state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, at peace or comfortable.

self-praise

• n. The praise of oneself; self-applause.

uneasiness

• n. The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
• n. An anxious state of mind; anxiety.