Definition of ostentation
1
:excessive display :vain and unnecessary show especially for the purpose of attracting attention, admiration, or envy :pretentiousness
- She dresses stylishly without ostentation.
- an aesthetic preference for function over ostentation
- —Wendell Garrett
- their ostentation of new wealth and their prodigality with it
- —Mark Sullivan
2
archaic
:an act of displaying
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