ostentation

Noun
  1. A gaudy outward display (synset 106902380)
    is a type of: display - exhibiting openly in public view
    subtypes:
    • bluster, bravado - a swaggering show of courage
    • exhibitionism - extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself
    • ritz - ostentatious display of elegance
    • splurge - an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)
    • pedantry - an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
    same as: fanfare, flash
  2. Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity (synset 104825154)
    is a type of: inelegance - the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
    same as: inflation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness
  3. Pretentious or showy or vulgar display (synset 104796502)
    is a type of: largeness, pretension, pretentiousness - the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

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