Definition of Pompousness

1. Noun. Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.


Definition of Pompousness

1. Noun. The quality of being pompous ¹

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Definition of Pompousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pompousness

pompion
pompions
pompire
pompoleon
pompoleons
pompom
pompoms
pompon
pompons
pompoon
pompoons
pomposities
pomposity
pompous
pompously
pompousness (current term)
pompousnesses
pomps
pomroy
pomroys
poms
pomset
pomsets
pomwater
pomwaters
pomœrium
pon
ponazuril
ponce
ponce wheel

Literary usage of Pompousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of by John Heneage Jesse (1846)
"His vanity and pompousness. — Sketches of his character by his contemporaries. — Amusing anecdote of his ignorance. — His fear of sleeping in a room alone. ..."

2. Memoirs of the Court of England: During the Reigns of William and Mary by John Heneage Jesse (1901)
"... and Created a Knight of the Garter—Raised to the Secretaryship of State in 1724 — His Vanity and pompousness — Sketches of His Character by His ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Boast ful ne ss, boasting, pretension, ostentation, pompousness, parade. ... pompousness, я. I. Grandeur, magnificence, pageantry, splendor, state, pomp, ..."

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