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Pretentiousness

noun
1.
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.  Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, puffiness, splashiness.
2.
The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth).  Synonyms: largeness, pretension.  Antonym: unpretentiousness.





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"Pretentiousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... fools are commonly puffed-up and deserve to be degraded, the word foolishness must be applied to a "swell-headed'' simpleton, and not to a good and honest simpleton. But Kant is not here distinguishing between foolishness and simplicity, but between pretentiousness and kindly honesty, thus indicating the former as the necessary attribute of foolishness. Another mode of distinction is to observe that forgetfulness is a quality of the simpleton who is defective in attention, but not ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden


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