増ぞう上じょう慢まん

noun, na-adjective

overconfidence; overconfident person

General use for excessive self-assurance or someone who is overconfident. Can be used as a noun or adjectival noun.

• 彼かれの増ぞう上じょう慢まんな態たい度どにはみんな呆あきれている。

  Everyone is fed up with his overconfident attitude.

• 増ぞう上じょう慢まんにならないように気きをつけよう。

  Let's be careful not to become overconfident.

noun

false belief of enlightenment

Buddhist technical term: the delusion of believing one has attained enlightenment when one has not. Rare outside religious contexts.

• 増ぞう上じょう慢まんは仏ぶっ教きょうで戒いましめられる慢まん心しんの一ひとつだ。

  Zōjōman is one of the forms of arrogance warned against in Buddhism.