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Ostentatiousness

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n. The property or characteristic of being ostentatious.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or quality of being ostentatious; vain display; boastfulness; vanity; ostentation.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

Word Usage

""Godspell" works best when it is presented most simply, and this production steers well away from the kind of glossy big-bucks ostentatiousness that could have killed it stone dead."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

inelegance