pomposity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pom=pos=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

pomposity, n. 

 The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.  Thackeray.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

pomposity

Barnumism, affectation, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, bedizenment, belief, big talk, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, convolution, courage, dignity, extrinsicality, faith, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, form, formality, formalization, fulsomeness, garishness, gaudiness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, gravity, high-flown diction, hubris, impersonality, inflatedness, inflation, lexiphanicism, loftiness, luridness, magniloquence, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, platitudinous ponderosity, poise, polysyllabic profundity, pomp, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontificality, pontification, positiveness, pretension, pretentiousness, pride, primness, prose run mad, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, rigidness, ritual, rituality, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, sensationalism, sententiousness, settled belief, showiness, solemnity, starchiness, stiffness, stiltedness, stuffiness, stylization, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tortuosity, tortuousness, trust, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, weight

ROGET THESAURUS

pomposity

Ostentation

N ostentation, display, show, flourish, parade, etalage, pomp, array, state, solemnity, dash, splash, splurge, glitter, strut, pomposity, pretense, pretensions, showing off, fuss, magnificence, splendor, coup d'oeil, grand doings, coup de theatre, stage effect, stage trick, claptrap, mise en scene, tour de force, chic, demonstration, flying colors, tomfoolery, flourish of trumpets, pageant, pageantry, spectacle, exhibition, exposition, procession, turn out, set out, grand function, f=ete, gala, field day, review, march past, promenade, insubstantial pageant, dress, court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress, tailoring, millinery, man millinery, frippery, foppery, equipage, ceremony, ceremonial, ritual, form, formality, etiquette, puncto, punctilio, punctiliousness, starched stateliness, stateliness, mummery, solemn mockery, mouth honor, attitudinarian, fop, ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious, janty, jaunty, grand, pompous, palatial, high-sounding, turgid gairish, garish, gaudy, gaudy as a peacock, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip, flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering, gay, splendid, magnificent, sumptuous, theatrical, dramatic, spectacular, ceremonial, ritual, solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious, starched, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue, in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_e, chic, with flourish of trumpet, with beat of drum, with flying colors, ad captandum vulgus, honores mutant mores.