noun
- Boastful self-importance or display: grandioseness, grandiosity, ostentation, pomposity, pretension, pretentiousness. See plain/fancy.
pompousness
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
Synonyms: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pretentiousness, splashiness, inflation
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