n.
[Cf. F. grandiosité, It. grandiosità.]
The state or quality of being grandiose,
grandiosity
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noun
- Something meriting the highest praise or regard: glory, grandeur, grandness, greatness, majesty, splendor. See praise/blame.
- Boastful self-importance or display: grandioseness, ostentation, pomposity, pompousness, pretension, pretentiousness. See plain/fancy.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
Synonyms: magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric
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