noun ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of pontificating countable, uncountable

   "It occasionally suffers from the pontification so deservedly satirized in rockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap."

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affectationbig talkconvolutionflatulencegaudinessgrandiloquence

Example

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"It occasionally suffers from the pontification so deservedly satirized in rockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap."

Etymology

From pontificate + -ion.

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