Pomposity \Pom*pos"i*ty\, n.; pl. Pomposities.
The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.
--Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pomposity
n : lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and
puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness,
pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, inflation]
WordNet (r) 2.0
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "pomposity":
Barnumism, affectation, arrogance, assurance, assuredness,
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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