Usually means: Excessive display to attract attention.
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  1. ostentatiousness: Merriam-Webster
  2. ostentatiousness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ostentatiousness: Vocabulary.com
  4. ostentatiousness: Wordnik
  5. ostentatiousness: Wiktionary
  6. ostentatiousness: Dictionary.com
  7. ostentatiousness: Rhymezone
  8. ostentatiousness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. ostentatiousness: FreeDictionary.org
  10. ostentatiousness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. ostentatiousness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The property or characteristic of being ostentatious.

Similar:
ostentation, pompousness, pomposity, pretentiousness, splashiness, unostentatiousness, ostensibility, obnoxiousness, boastfulness, showiness, more...

Opposite:
modesty, simplicity, unpretentiousness

Types:
flashiness, ostentation, extravagance, extravaganza, flamboyance, flamboyancy, more...

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Similar:
ostentation, pompousness, pomposity, pretentiousness, splashiness, unostentatiousness, ostensibility, obnoxiousness, boastfulness, showiness, more...

Opposite:
modesty, simplicity, unpretentiousness

Types:
flashiness, ostentation, extravagance, extravaganza, flamboyance, flamboyancy, more...



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