Usually means: Displaying unwarranted importance, ostentation, snobbery.
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  1. pretentiousness: Merriam-Webster
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  3. pretentiousness: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. pretentiousness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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▸ noun:  The quality of being pretentious.

Similar:
pompousness, pomposity, ostentatiousness, pretension, ostentation, splashiness, pretentiosity, pretensiveness, pretendingness, prepossessingness, more...

Opposite:
unpretentiousness, modesty, humility, simplicity

Types:
snobbery, elitism, snobbishness, pretension, more...

Adjectives:
intellectual, such, social, literary, certain, own, moral, empty, human, academic, mere



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Similar:
pompousness, pomposity, ostentatiousness, pretension, ostentation, splashiness, pretentiosity, pretensiveness, pretendingness, prepossessingness, more...

Opposite:
unpretentiousness, modesty, humility, simplicity

Types:
snobbery, elitism, snobbishness, pretension, more...

Adjectives:
intellectual, such, social, literary, certain, own, moral, empty, human, academic, mere



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