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Ostentation Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Ostentation? [n] pretentious or showy or vulgar display [n] lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [n] a showy outward display Synonyms \| Synonyms for Ostentation: fanfare \| inflation \| ostentatiousness \| pomposity \| pompousness \| splashiness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Ostentation: acting \| affectation \| appearance \| arabesque \| arrantness \| attitudinizing \| Barnumism \| baroque \| baroqueness \| bedizenment \| big talk \| blatancy \| bluff \| bluffing \| boldness \| cheating \| chinoiserie \| color \| coloring \| conspicuousness \| convolution \| deception \| delusion \| demonstration \| disguise \| display \| dissemblance \| dissembling \| dissimulation \| elaborateness \| elegance \| enactment \| exhibit \| exhibition \| exhibitionism \| exposition \| exposure \| facade \| face \| fakery \| faking \| false air \| false front \| false show \| falsity \| fanciness \| feigning \| feint \| fineness \| flagrance \| flagrancy \| flamboyance \| flashiness \| flatulence \| flatulency \| flaunting \| floridity \| floridness \| flourish \| floweriness \| four-flushing \| fraud \| front \| fulsomeness \| garishness \| gaudiness \| gilt \| gloss \| grandiloquence \| grandioseness \| grandiosity \| high relief \| high-flown diction \| humbug \| humbuggery \| imposture \| inflatedness \| inflation \| lexiphanicism \| loftiness \| luridness \| luxuriance \| luxuriousness \| magniloquence \| masquerade \| mere rhetoric \| meretriciousness \| moresque \| noticeability \| notoriety \| notoriousness \| obtrusiveness \| opening \| orotundity \| ostentatious complexity \| outstandingness \| outward show \| overelaborateness \| overelegance \| overornamentation \| parade \| performance \| platitudinous ponderosity \| playacting \| polysyllabic profundity \| pomposity \| pompous prolixity \| pompousness \| pontification \| pose \| posing \| posture \| presentation \| presentment \| pretense \| pretension \| pretentiousness \| pretext \| production \| projection \| prominence \| pronouncedness \| prose run mad \| representation \| retrospective \| rhetoric \| rhetoricalness \| richness \| rococo \| salience \| saliency \| seeming \| semblance \| sensationalism \| sententiousness \| sham \| show \| showiness \| showing \| simulacrum \| simulation \| speciousness \| stiltedness \| strikingness \| strong relief \| swelling utterance \| swollen phrase \| swollenness \| tall talk \| tortuosity \| tortuousness \| tumidity \| tumidness \| turgescence \| turgidity \| unfolding \| unfoldment \| unveiling \| varnish \| varnishing day \| vernissage \| window dressing See Also \| bluster \| bravado \| display \| exhibitionism \| inelegance \| pedantry \| pretension \| pretentiousness \| ritz \| splurge Ostentation In Webster's Dictionary \Os`ten*ta"tion\, n. [L. ostentatio: cf. F. ostentation.] 1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. ``Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm.'' --Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation. --Atterbury. 2. A show or spectacle. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: Parade; pageantry; show; pomp; pompousness; vaunting; boasting. See {Parade}.

Ostentation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ostentation?

[n] pretentious or showy or vulgar display
[n] lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
[n] a showy outward display

Ostentation In Webster's Dictionary

\Os`ten*ta"tion\, n. [L. ostentatio: cf. F.
ostentation.]
1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display;
   unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a
   detractive sense. ``Much ostentation vain of fleshly
   arm.'' --Milton.

         He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes
         inclined to ostentation.              --Atterbury.

2. A show or spectacle. [Obs.] --Shak.

Syn: Parade; pageantry; show; pomp; pompousness; vaunting;
     boasting. See {Parade}.

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