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Another word for pomposity

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pomposity

n.

Pretension
presumption, conceit, overconfidence; see arrogance.
Grandiloquence
balderdash, pretension, bombast; see nonsense 1.

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Another word for pomposity

noun

Boastful self-importance or display:

grandioseness, grandiosity, ostentation, pompousness, pretension, pretentiousness. See plain

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They criticized in no measured terms the current medicine of the time, and exposed the practical ignorance, the pomposity, and the greed of those who practised it.
3) criticizes his writings as characterized by pomposity of style and an extravagant use of poetical epithets and compounds and far-fetched metaphors.
He was a very agreeable companion and a thorough man of the world, singularly free from arrogance and pomposity; owing to his small stature, he was often known as "die kleine Excellenz."

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