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Ostentation

Ostentation Meaning & Definition
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}.

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