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Pretentiousness Moderate

Origin: Latin prefix pre-

Pretentiousness has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

2

the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

3

The quality of being pretentious.

Related Terms
Antonyms
unpretentiousness
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
inelegance unnaturalness
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
ostentation
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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