Definition of ostentation

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Ostentation (n.) The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.

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Pomp :: Pomp (n.) A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
Flourish :: Flourish (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit..
Fanfaronade :: Fanfaronade (n.) A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
Ostentatious :: Ostentatious (a.) Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful..
Boastless :: Boastless (a.) Without boasting or ostentation.
Pride :: Pride (n.) Show; ostentation; glory.
Showiness :: Showiness (n.) The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
Vanity :: Vanity (n.) An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit.
Vaunt :: Vaunt (v. t.) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
Bravery :: Bravery (n.) Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress.
Snobbishness :: Snobbishness (n.) Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.
Ostentation :: Ostentation (n.) A show or spectacle.
Ostentation :: Ostentation (n.) The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
Vaunt :: Vaunt (n.) A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag..
Pedantry :: Pedantry (n.) The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning..
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