| Main Entry: | pretentiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-importance |
Synonyms: |
arrogance, bigheadedness, cockiness, egotism, grandioseness, grandiosity, immodesty, ostentation, pomposity, pompousness, pretension, smugness, vaingloriousness, vanity |
| Main Entry: | affectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretended behavior to make an impression |
Synonyms: |
air, airs, appearance, artificiality, facade, false front, front, going Hollywood, imitation, insincerity, mannerism, pose, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, putting on airs, sham*, show, showing off, simulation |
Antonyms: |
naturalness, simplicity |
| 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: | 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: | charade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretense |
Synonyms: |
deception, disguise, fake, farce, make-believe, mimicry, pageant, pantomime, parody, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, travesty, trick |
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering, makeup for deception |
Synonyms: |
beard, blind, camouflage, charade, cloak, color, coloring, concealment, costume, counterfeit, cover-up, dissimulation, dress, facade, face, faking, false front, fig leaf, front*, get-up, guise, illusion, make-believe, mask, masquerade, pageant, pen name, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, pseudonym, put-on, red herring, screen, semblance, smoke screen, trickery, veil, veneer |
| Main Entry: | display |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public showing; spectacle |
Synonyms: |
act, affectation, arrangement, array, arrayal, blaze, bravura, dash, demonstration, example, exhibit, exhibition, expo, exposition, exposure, fanfare, flourish, for show, frame-up, frippery, front, grandstand play, layout, manifestation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pageant, panorama, parade, pedantry, pomp, presentation, pretension, pretentiousness, revelation, sample, scheme, shine, showboat, splash, splendor, splurge, spread, unfolding, vanity |
Antonyms: |
hiding |
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
Synonyms: |
aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment |
| Main Entry: | frippery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waste, nonsense |
Synonyms: |
adornment, bauble, decoration, fanciness, fandangle, flashiness, frill, fussiness, gaudiness, knickknack, meretriciousness, ornament, ostentation, pretentiousness, showiness, tawdriness, toy, trinket |
Antonyms: |
plainness |