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pomposity

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Main Entry: pomposity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretension

Synonyms:

airs, arrogance, conceit, ostentation, overconfidence, presumption
Main Entry: pomposity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: grandiloquence

Synonyms:

balderdash, bombast, nonsense, pretension
Main Entry: airs
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: affectation; pretended behavior

Synonyms:

affectedness, arrogance, false front, front, haughtiness, hauteur, mannerism, ostentation, pomposity, pose, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, show, superciliousness

Antonyms:

personality, realness, truthfulness
Main Entry: arrogance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exaggerated self-opinion

Synonyms:

airs, aloofness, audacity, bluster, braggadocio, brass, cheek, chutzpah*, conceit, conceitedness, contemptuousness, crust, disdain, disdainfulness, ego, egotism, gall, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, hubris, imperiousness, insolence, loftiness, nerve, ostentation, overbearance, pomposity, pompousness, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, pride, priggishness, scornfulness, self-importance, self-love, smugness, superciliousness, swagger, vanity

Antonyms:

humility, meekness, servility
Main Entry: bravado
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: boastfulness

Synonyms:

blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, braggadocio, bragging, bullying, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, guts*, hot air, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, swelling, talk, tall talk

Antonyms:

cowardice, fear, fearfulness, modesty, restraint
Main Entry: cant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hypocritical statement

Synonyms:

affected piety, deceit, dishonesty, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, insincerity, lip service, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pious platitudes, pomposity, pretense, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sham holiness, show
Main Entry: conceit
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: egotism

Synonyms:

amour-propre, arrogance, complacence, complacency, consequence, immodesty, narcissism, outrecuidance, pomposity, pride, self-admiration, self-conceit, self-exaltation, self-importance, self-love, self-regard, smugness, snottiness, stuffiness, swagger, swelled head, vainglory, vainness, vanity

Antonyms:

humility, meekness, modesty, self-consciousness, shyness, timidity, unself-confidence
Main Entry: euphemism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nice way of saying something

Synonyms:

circumlocution, delicacy, floridness, grandiloquence, inflation, pomposity, pretense, purism
Notes: dysphemism is the substitution of a disagreeable word or phrase for a neutral or positive one (also a word or phrase so substituted); it is the opposite of euphemism
Main Entry: gall
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nerve, brashness

Synonyms:

acrimony, animosity, arrogance, bitterness, brass, brazenness, cheek, chutzpah*, conceit, confidence, crust cynicism, effrontery, guts*, haughtiness, hostility, impertinence, impudence, insolence, malevolence, malice, overbearance, pomposity, presumption, rancor, sauciness, self-importance, spite, venom

Antonyms:

modesty, reservations, shyness
Main Entry: haughtiness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: air of supremacy

Synonyms:

aloofness, arrogance, conceit, contempt, contemptuousness, disdain, disdainfulness, hauteur, insolence, loftiness, pomposity, pride, snobbishness, superbity, superciliousness

Antonyms:

humility, meekness
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