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grandiosity
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grandiosity \Gran"di*os"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. grandiosit['e], It. grandiosit[`a].] The state or quality of being grandiose,
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, from French grandiose (see grandiose ) + -ity .\n\nThe author now and then makes a word for his own use, as complicate , for complicated; and, still less fortunately 'grandiosity' (p. 343). [review of Joseph Forsyth's "Remarks on Italy," "Edinburgh ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation [syn: magniloquence , grandiloquence , rhetoric ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Grandiosity refers to an unrealistic sense of superiority—a sustained view of oneself as better than others that causes the narcissist to view others with disdain or as inferior—as well as to a sense of uniqueness: the belief that few others have anything ...
Usage examples of grandiosity.
It became my credo, the central theme of my life, but if it had not been for the intolerance and pigheadedness I exhibited with such grandiosity in those years and the weird sideburns and holier-than-thou attitude that I paraded around with, I would have entered into my maturity as uninterested in the world of ideas as any other Southerner.
It was a moist, cold evening, and the mean, tiresome street, slopped and splashed under its two rows of small trees, to which the thinning leaves clung like wet rags, between long lines of shops and hotels which had neither the grace of Paris nor the grandiosity of New York.
Return to your valley, put aside your foolish grandiosities, dig yourself protection.