ostentation

n.

1. Pretentious display meant to impress others; boastful showiness.
2. Archaic. The act or an instance of showing; an exhibition.

[Middle English ostentacioun, from Old French ostentacion, from Latin ostentātiō, ostentātiōn-, from ostentāre, frequentative of ostendere, to show. See ostensible.]

noun

Boastful self-importance or display: grandioseness, grandiosity, pomposity, pompousness, pretension, pretentiousness. See plain/fancy.

n

Definition: exhibitionism, flashiness
Antonyms: modesty, plainness, quiet, reservation, unpretentiousness

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Quotes:

"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person." - Joseph Addison

"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy." - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies." - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience." - Marcus T. Cicero

"I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt." - Ben Hecht

"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation." - William Hutton

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - stillen til skue, pralen

Nederlands (Dutch)
vertoon, praal, pronkzucht, praalzucht, koketterie

Français (French)
n. - ostentation

Deutsch (German)
n. - Prahlerei, Pomp

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - επίδειξη, προβολή, φιγούρα

Italiano (Italian)
ostentazione, vanità

Português (Portuguese)
n. - ostentação (f), alarde (m)

Русский (Russian)
бахвальство, показуха

Español (Spanish)
n. - ostentación, aparato, pompa, alarde, fastuosidad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - ståt, prål, skryt, vräkighet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
虚饰, 卖弄, 虚有其表

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 虛飾, 賣弄, 虛有其表

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 겉치레, 과시

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 見せびらかし, 誇示

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مباهاة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ראוותנות, התפארות, התרברבות, שחצנות, הפגנה‬

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