The word smug We use it to account for that person who is characterized by pride and vanity that presents in his way of acting and behavingand that constantly push him to to boast of oneself and of what one boasts and knows.
Proud and vain person who boasts of his qualities and aptitudes all the time even if they are not such
We must emphasize that this concept is normally used in our language in a negative sense, for what we were exposing, because the conceited flaunt their knowledge and many other issues, having or not a reason to do so, that is, whether justified or not.
Basically, the show off will love it, being in a group of people, so exalt and comment on all those qualities that he claims to possess, the achievements obtained in his life, the merits, the power that he holds before a certain public and also, in the case that this is the case, the material goods that he holds.
It should be noted that it will be precisely this disposition that will lead the person to praise himself excessively, believing himself capable of doing anything, and of course doing it much better than anyone else in the entire world, although reality is not like that at all.
Salient traits: lack of empathy, pursuit of social success, and contempt for peers
So, in the social field we will easily recognize the conceited because it will be the one who from the beginning to the end of a meeting we will find talking about himself and nothing more than himself.
It is recurring that in this repeated self-assessment, the conceited person is inclined to devalue those around him, because in this way he will further mark his supremacy over the rest.
This is one of the most recurring characteristics among conceited people, flaunting themselves in whatever way they look and highlighting the ignorance or lack of qualities and skills that those around them display.
In this way, bragging about himself and exposing the shortcomings of others, the conceited man considers that he makes himself great, important and valuable compared to the rest, and this is precisely his mission, to stand out and show that he is the best of all, although not it is as we were saying.
From the foregoing it can be deduced that whoever shows himself and presents himself in this way will not have a positive assessment from his environment or group at all, but rather the opposite, because people generally resent that person as the conceited that highlights nothing more than his own and that tends to detract from what another does, simply because he is not doing it or achieving it.
In many cases, if the history and psyche of the presumptuous person is thoroughly analyzed, we will find ourselves surprised that not all that glitters is gold, as the popular saying goes, and that actually behind that person who seems to eat the In the world there is a person with a great lack of self-esteem, who precisely needs all those boasts so as not to show himself weak in front of others.
Of course, sometimes a professional look or a lot of knowledge is necessary to be able to determine it.
The conceited are constantly looking for social success, meanwhile, they do not show a shred of empathy with anyone and this is so because they are people with a lot of fear, who need to create a character and a reality that is not in order to face life.
Due to the above, due to this constant tendency to show off, the aggressiveness towards those around them and the absolute absence of empathy, people who are boastful are normally rejected on a social level, making it difficult for them to forge lasting friendships and relationships.
In addition, When a person takes care of his physical appearance too much, that is, he takes care of his image, always being impeccable, with good clothes, a good smell, among other things, we say that he is presumptuous..
Among the synonyms that we use the most for this word are that of proud, vain and flirtatious for the second sense of the term.
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