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pretentiousness (noun)

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  • pretentiousness — pretentious ► ADJECTIVE ▪ attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed. DERIVATIVES pretentiously adverb pretentiousness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • pretentiousness — noun see pretentious …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • pretentiousness — noun The quality of being pretentious …   Wiktionary

  • pretentiousness — noun 1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity • Syn: ↑ostentation, ↑ostentatiousness, ↑pomposity, ↑pompousness, ↑puffiness, ↑splashiness, ↑inflation …   Useful english dictionary

  • pretentiousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Boastful self importance or display: grandioseness, grandiosity, ostentation, pomposity, pompousness, pretension. See PLAIN …   English dictionary for students

  • pretentious — adjective Etymology: French prétentieux, from prétention pretension, from Medieval Latin pretention , pretentio, from Latin praetendere Date: 1832 1. characterized by pretension: as a. making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • pretentious — adjective attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed. Derivatives pretentiously adverb pretentiousness noun Origin C19: from Fr. prétentieux, from prétention (see pretension) …   English new terms dictionary

  • pretentious — adjective trying to seem more important, clever etc than you really are: It s pretentious of him to keep the complete works of Proust on full display. | a pretentious movie opposite unpretentious pretentiously adverb pretentiousness noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • pretentious — /prəˈtɛnʃəs / (say pruh tenshuhs) adjective 1. full of pretension. 2. characterised by assumption of dignity or importance. 3. making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious. {Latin praetenti(o) pretension + ous} –pretentiously, adverb… …  

  • pretentious — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed. DERIVATIVES pretentiously adverb pretentiousness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • pretentiously — pretentious ► ADJECTIVE ▪ attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed. DERIVATIVES pretentiously adverb pretentiousness noun …   English terms dictionary

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