What is "pompousness"

Pompous \Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See Pomp.]

1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.

2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. ``Pompous in high presumption.''
   --Chaucer.

   he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
   --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] -- Pom"ous*ly, adv. -- Pomp"ous*ness, n.

n. The quality of being pompous

n. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pretentiousness, splashiness, inflation]