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Pretentiousness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being pretentious. countable, uncountable

    "Near-synonyms: affectation, affectedness, false pretense, pretending"

  2. 2
    the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) wordnet
  3. 3
    lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity wordnet

Etymology

From pretentious + -ness.

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