Pretentiosity

Quick meaning: Pretentiosity is a noun meaning The quality of being pretentious.

Meaning

The quality of being pretentious.

Example Sentences

[…]; eschew all flatulent garrulity, loquaciousness and asinine affectation, pretentiosity, mauvaise honte and artificiality;

We've a right to laugh off the scene the bankrupt pretentiosity of the futile self-misnamed Power types, the wielders of absurd violence.

Hatred of baroque pretentiosity and the feeling that the ode-writers aspired too high produced many parodic odes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

I have found some exciting speculations, some estimable aspirations, some enduring fables, much vanity, much pretentiosity—and scarcely a glimmer of truth:[…]

Synonyms for pretentiosity

Depending on context, synonyms include pretentiousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pretentiousness, pretensiveness, pretension, pompousness, pretendingness, pomposity.

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