self-display
noun
self-dis·play
ˌself-di-ˈsplā
plural self-displays
: the act or an instance of showing off or exhibiting oneself usually in an ostentatious manner : self-exhibition
He disliked self-display, making a scene, anything that threatened to rock the social boat.—James Trilling
… reveled in the kind of self-display that a bourgeois woman was supposed to avoid …—Laura Auricchio
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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