noun
- Boastful self-importance or display: grandioseness, grandiosity, ostentation, pomposity, pompousness, pretension. See plain/fancy.
pretentiousness
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The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
Synonyms: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, splashiness, inflation
Meaning #2:
the quality of being pretentious (creating a false appearance of great importance or worth)
Synonym: pretension
Antonym: unpretentiousness (meaning #1)
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