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pomposity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pomposity \Pom*pos"i*ty\, n.; pl. Pomposities.
The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.
--Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "pomp, solemnity," from Medieval Latin pompositas, from Late Latin pomposus "stately, pompous" (see pompous). The sense of "ostentatious display" is from 1610s; earlier in French pomposité.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being pompous; self-importance.
WordNet
n. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, inflation]
Usage examples of "pomposity".
White talks in an amusing strain of pomposity about his and her family and connections, and affects to look down with wondrous hauteur on the whole race of tradesfolk, as she terms men of business.
Everybody knows that his poetry at its most perfect is less concerned with the pomposity of Olympus than with the numina of natural and agricultural life.
After the first ceremonial spadeful of earth had been dug by each of the Lanthanides, accompanied by speeches in varying degrees of pomposity, Jim and Dale took turns digging the three-foot hole.
Despite his pomposity, Baden had a sense of humor, he was intelligent and persuasive, and he was more powerful than most of them realized.
IT WOULDN'T SURPRISE ME IF YOUR NAME IN THE FUTURE BECAME SYNONYMOUS WITH UGLY CLUTTER AND DARK PONDEROUS FURNITURE AND HIDDEN EVIL THOUGHTS, WITH ARROGANT POMPOSITY AND CHILD PROSTITUTION AND A WHOLE HOST OF OTHER GROSS PERVERSIONS.
He was puffed up like a pouter pigeon with is professional pontifical pomposity reeling.
Lord Whatsis says and something in his tone says that even his pomposity is impressed, "is Indira Yansi.