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Noun: ostentation  `ós-ten'tey-shun
  1. A gaudy outward display
    - fanfare, flash
     
  2. Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
    - ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation
     
  3. Pretentious or showy or vulgar display

Derived forms: ostentations

See also: ostentate [archaic], ostentatious

Type of: display, inelegance, largeness, pretension, pretentiousness

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