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Synonyms & Antonyms of pretentiousness
1
an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims
- everyone took her ingrained pretentiousness into account when considering her statements
Synonyms for pretentiousness
- arrogance,
- assumption,
- bumptiousness,
- consequence,
- haughtiness,
- hauteur,
- high horse,
- huffiness,
- imperiousness,
- loftiness,
- lordliness,
- masterfulness,
- peremptoriness,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- presumptuousness,
- pretense
- (or pretence),
- pretension,
- self-consequence,
- self-importance,
- superciliousness,
- superiority,
- toploftiness
Words Related to pretentiousness
- 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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2
excessive or unnecessary display
- the sheer pretentiousness of the debutante's wedding
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3
the quality or state of appearing or trying to appear more important or more valuable than is the case
- the utter pretentiousness of the movie is matched only by the incomprehensibility of its story
Synonyms for pretentiousness
Words Related to pretentiousness
- arrogance,
- bumptiousness,
- complacency,
- conceit,
- egotism,
- hauteur,
- imperiousness,
- pompousness,
- presumptuousness,
- pride,
- self-aggrandizement,
- self-assertion,
- self-assumption,
- self-conceit,
- self-consequence,
- self-glorification,
- self-importance,
- self-satisfaction,
- smugness,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory,
- vainness,
- vanity
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