Usually means: Excessive self-importance or pretentiousness displayed.
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  1. pompousness: Merriam-Webster
  2. pompousness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pompousness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pompousness: Vocabulary.com
  5. pompousness: Wordnik
  6. pompousness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pompousness: Wiktionary
  8. pompousness: Dictionary.com
  9. pompousness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. pompousness: Rhymezone
  11. pompousness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. pompousness: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pompousness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. pompousness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The quality of being pompous.

Similar:
pomposity, pretentiousness, ostentatiousness, ostentation, splashiness, unpompousness, pulpousness, ponderousness, boastfulness, loftiness, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty, unpretentiousness

Types:
self-importance, self-righteousness, self-aggrandizement, self-satisfaction, self-importunate, more...

Adjectives:
certain, great, much, own, farcical, mock, such, petty, victorian, old, philosophical



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Similar:
pomposity, pretentiousness, ostentatiousness, ostentation, splashiness, unpompousness, pulpousness, ponderousness, boastfulness, loftiness, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty, unpretentiousness

Types:
self-importance, self-righteousness, self-aggrandizement, self-satisfaction, self-importunate, more...

Adjectives:
certain, great, much, own, farcical, mock, such, petty, victorian, old, philosophical



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