'ostentation' definitions:
Definition of 'ostentation'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation]
noun
Pretentious or showy or vulgar display
Synonyms of 'ostentation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- arabesque,
- arrantness,
- attitudinizing,
- Barnumism,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- boldness,
- cheating,
- chinoiserie,
- color,
- coloring,
- conspicuousness,
- convolution,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- elaborateness,
- elegance,
- enactment,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exposition,
- exposure,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanciness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fineness,
- flagrance,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flaunting,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- high relief,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriousness,
- magniloquence,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- moresque,
- noticeability,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- obtrusiveness,
- opening,
- orotundity,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outstandingness,
- outward show,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overornamentation,
- parade,
- performance,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- production,
- projection,
- prominence,
- pronouncedness,
- prose run mad,
- representation,
- retrospective,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- richness,
- rococo,
- salience,
- saliency,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- showing,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- stiltedness,
- strikingness,
- strong relief,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unveiling,
- varnish,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage,
- window dressing