Meaning of POMPOSITY
| Pronunciation: | | pâm'pâsitee
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| | Definition: | | [n] lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity |
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| | Synonyms: | | inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness |
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| | See Also: | | inelegance | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pom*pos"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Pomposities}.
The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.
--Thackeray.
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| | Related Terms: | | affectation, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, Barnumism, 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 |
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