noun
1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
• Syn:
• 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
Useful english dictionary. 2012.