grandiosity

2 definitions found

grandiosity - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Grandiosity \Gran"di*os"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. grandiosit['e], It.
     grandiosit[`a].]
     The state or quality of being grandiose,
     [1913 Webster]

grandiosity - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  grandiosity
      n 1: high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation;
           "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of
           language" [syn: grandiosity, magniloquence,
           ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric]