pretentiousness
noun
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Sense 1 noun
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
Types & categories
- inelegance hypernym
Related & opposite
- ostentatious derivation
- overblown derivation
- ostentatious derivation
Sense 2 noun
the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
Types & categories
- unnaturalness hypernym
- ostentation hyponym
Related & opposite
- unpretentiousness antonym
- pretentious derivation
- tumid derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ostentatious |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | overblown |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ostentatious |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | inelegance |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | unpretentiousness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pretentious |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tumid |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | unnaturalness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | ostentation |