Definitions for: Ostentation


[n] pretentious or showy or vulgar display
[n] lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
[n] a showy outward display



Webster (1913) Definition: Os`ten*ta"tion, n. [L. ostentatio: cf. F.
ostentation.]
1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display;
unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a
detractive sense. ``Much ostentation vain of fleshly
arm.'' --Milton.

He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes
inclined to ostentation. --Atterbury.

2. A show or spectacle. [Obs.] --Shak.

Syn: Parade; pageantry; show; pomp; pompousness; vaunting;
boasting. See Parade.

Synonyms: fanfare, inflation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, splashiness

See Also: bluster, bravado, display, exhibitionism, inelegance, pedantry, pretension, pretentiousness, ritz, splurge

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