noun
- Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
- synonyms: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation
- The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth. ).
- synonyms: pretension, largeness
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