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1
subtle or imaginative ability in inventing, devising, or executing something
- the sheer masterfulness of the thieves' plan could not be denied, even by the police
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2
an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims
- the shameless masterfulness that invested his every move was positively galling to his colleagues
Synonyms for masterfulness
- arrogance,
- assumption,
- bumptiousness,
- consequence,
- haughtiness,
- hauteur,
- high horse,
- huffiness,
- imperiousness,
- loftiness,
- lordliness,
- peremptoriness,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- presumptuousness,
- pretense
- (or pretence),
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- self-consequence,
- self-importance,
- superciliousness,
- superiority,
- toploftiness
Words Related to masterfulness
- chest-thumping,
- inflation,
- self-assertion,
- side
- [chiefly British],
- snobbery,
- snobbishness,
- snobbism,
- snootiness
- boastfulness,
- bombast,
- braggadocio,
- bravado,
- strut,
- swagger,
- triumphalism,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory
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