pomposity
noun
1 pomposity
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness.
Roget 882:
ostentation,
display,
show,
flourish,
parade,
etalage [Fr.],
pomp,
array,
state,
solemnity;
dash,
splash,
splurge,
glitter,
strut,
pomposity;
pretense,
pretensions;
showing off;
fuss.
magnificence,
splendor;
coup d'oeil [Fr.];
grand doings.
coup de theatre;
stage effect,
stage trick;
claptrap;
mise en scene [Fr.];
tour de force;
chic.
demonstration,
flying colors;
tomfoolery;
flourish of trumpets
etc.
(celebration)
883;
pageant,
pageantry;
spectacle,
exhibition,
exposition,
procession;
turn out,
set out;
grand function;
f=ete,
gala,
field day,
review,
march past,
promenade,
insubstantial pageant.
dress;
court dress,
full dress,
evening dress,
ball dress,
fancy dress;
tailoring,
millinery,
man millinery,
frippery,
foppery,
equipage.
ceremony,
ceremonial;
ritual;
form,
formality;
etiquette;
puncto [Lat.],
punctilio,
punctiliousness;
starched stateliness,
stateliness.
mummery,
solemn mockery,
mouth honor.
attitudinarian†;
fop
etc.
854.
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Dutch: hoogdravendheid
Polish: napuszoność, bombastyczność, górnolotność, bombast, pompatyczność
Moby thesaurus: Barnumism, affectation, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, bedizenment, belief, big talk, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, convolution, courage, dignity, extrinsicality, faith, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, form, formality, formalization, fulsomeness, garishness, gaudiness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, gravity, high-flown diction, hubris, impersonality, inflatedness, inflation, lexiphanicism, loftiness, luridness, magniloquence, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, platitudinous ponderosity, poise, polysyllabic profundity, pomp, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontificality, pontification, positiveness, pretension, pretentiousness, pride, primness, prose run mad, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, rigidness, ritual, rituality, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, sensationalism, sententiousness, settled belief, showiness, solemnity, starchiness, stiffness, stiltedness, stuffiness, stylization, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tortuosity, tortuousness, trust, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, weight ... show more.
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