Pomposity

n.

1.

The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.

Noun

1.

pomposity - lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity Synonyms: ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, ostentation, inflation

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

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