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Pomposity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being pompous; self-importance.

    "With their super-formal tone and heavy use of jargon, legal documents are renowned for their pomposity."

  2. 2
    lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English pomposite (“solemnity”), from Latin pompōsitās.

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