What is your definition?
How do you treat/react to people who fit your definition of self righteousness?
Is your definition too narrow? or too broad?
Do you pray about this? That you don’t exhibit self righteousness?
Your thoughts…. Feel free to raise your own questions?
Since @Dogmum just dismissed me as “self-righteous” and unworthy of further discussion on the thread Shouldn’t one’s belief require some level of faith? - General Faith - Christian Forums at Crosswalk, I’m uniquely qualified to respond here! 
As I explained in my last post there, self-righteousness is in the eye of the beholder. I might characterize Dogmum’s responses to me as self-righteous lecturing while she would surely view them as “kindly and helpful advice” from a Real Christian (her) to a Lost Soul (moi!).
The only antidote to self-righteousness is what I described as “the only cure for disunity” in the thread Isn’t this the problem with all Christian forums? - General Faith - Christian Forums at Crosswalk
As do many with her “just believe and don’t think too much” sort of faith, @Dogmum views a more intellectual approach as “self-righteousness.” It’s a defense mechanism: I can’t keep up, so I declare you self-righteousness and leave in a huff.
And so it goes, and always will.
Actual self-righteousness is the antithesis of the above three points:
As I described in Isn’t this the problem with all Christian forums? - General Faith - Christian Forums at Crosswalk, self-righteousness is found predominantly, if not uniquely, in what I called the literalist/inerrantist/fundamentalist segment of Christianity - but perhaps it’s self-righteous of me to make this observation? BWAHAHA! 
Self righteousness is, imo, arrogance in the name of God.
I love this definition of arrogance:
“Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.”
Tis an excellent word to use.
To me self righteousness is pride and arrogance and usually can’t be seen by a person who is. It’s like missing one’s nose when considering the face.
Of course, confidence is often confused with arrogance, as is expertise in an area under discussion.
I had a student evaluation claim that I “thought I knew everything “ about the subject I taught.
Arrogance? Or hard earned expertise and degrees a kid with a high school diploma took issue with?
Don’t you think confidence and arrogance can be distinguished by attitude?
Exactly. I’m not going to strut my intellectual or academic credentials, but I’ve heard this all my life from people who simply can’t keep up. It’s a defense mechanism by them. “You’re arrogant and self-righteous” basically means “I can’t keep up.” It’s particularly comical in the Christian arena, where mindless faith is weirdly viewed as a virtue and pleasing to God. It’s those who revel in being mindless and rub it in your face by assertions of “overthinking” who are actually the arrogant and self-righteous ones. Hey, I’ve got that “childlike faith” that God wants! Uh, not exactly.