About The Word Pomposity

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Pomposity

Pomposity Meaning & Definition
Pomposity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pomposity?

[n] lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pomposity: inflation | ostentation | ostentatiousness | pompousness | pretentiousness | splashiness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pomposity: 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

See Also | inelegance

Pomposity In Webster's Dictionary

\Pom*pos"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Pomposities}. The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. --Thackeray.

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