| pretentiousness 
 
 1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
 • Syn:
 ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, puffiness,
 splashiness, inflation
 • Derivationally related forms:
 ostentatious (for: splashiness), pretentious, pompous (for: pompousness), pompous (for: pomposity), ostentatious (for: ostentatiousness)
 • Hypernyms:
 inelegance
 2. the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
 • Syn:
 pretension, largeness
 • Ant:
 unpretentiousness
 • Derivationally related forms:
 large (for: largeness), pretentious
 • Hypernyms:
 unnaturalness
 • Hyponyms:
 ostentation
 
 
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