pretentiousness

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Noun pretentiousness has 2 senses

ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, inflation - lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
--₁ is a kind of inelegance
pretentiousness, pretension - the quality of being pretentious (creating a false appearance of great importance or worth)
--₂ is a kind of unnaturalness
Antonyms: unpretentiousness
--₂ has particulars: ostentation

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