Pretentiousness

noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

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

Synonyms

All synonyms
affectationaffectednessaimarroganceartfulnessartifice

Example

More examples

"His pretentiousness is irritating."

Etymology

From pretentious + -ness.

More for "pretentiousness"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.