Search Result for "pretentiousness":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity;
[syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation]
2. the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth);
[syn: pretentiousness, pretension, largeness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pretentious \Pre*ten"tious\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]tentieux. See Pretend.] Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming. -- Pre*ten"tious*ly, adv. -- Pre*ten"tious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
