POMPOSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pomposity mean? 

• POMPOSITY (noun)
  The noun POMPOSITY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: POMPOSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POMPOSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inflation; ostentation; ostentatiousness; pomposity; pompousness; pretentiousness; puffiness; splashiness

Hypernyms ("pomposity" is a kind of...):

inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)

Derivation:

pompous (puffed up with vanity)

 Context examples 

With a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and strode off upon his way.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)