Synonyms of the word

self-praise

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

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.

jactitation

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