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ostentation 音標拼音: [ ,ɔstɛnt'eʃən] n. 虛飾,虛有其表,賣弄 虛飾,虛有其表,賣弄 ostentation n 1: a gaudy outward display [ synonym: { ostentation}, { fanfare}, { flash}] 2: lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [ synonym: { ostentation}, { ostentatiousness}, { pomposity}, { pompousness}, { pretentiousness}, { puffiness}, { splashiness}, { inflation}] 3: pretentious or showy or vulgar displayOstentation \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation. -- Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A show or spectacle. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Parade; pageantry; show; pomp; pompousness; vaunting; boasting. See { Parade}. [ 1913 Webster] 162 Moby Thesaurus words for " ostentation": Barnumism, acting, affectation, appearance, arabesque, arrantness, attitudinizing, baroque, baroqueness, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, bluff, bluffing, boldness, cheating, chinoiserie, color, coloring, conspicuousness, convolution, deception, delusion, demonstration, disguise, display, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, elaborateness, elegance, enactment, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism, exposition, exposure, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, fanciness, feigning, feint, fineness, flagrance, flagrancy, flamboyance, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, flaunting, floridity, floridness, flourish, floweriness, four- flushing, fraud, front, fulsomeness, garishness, gaudiness, gilt, gloss, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, high relief, high- flown diction, humbug, humbuggery, imposture, inflatedness, inflation, lexiphanicism, loftiness, luridness, luxuriance, luxuriousness, magniloquence, masquerade, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, moresque, noticeability, notoriety, notoriousness, obtrusiveness, opening, orotundity, ostentatious complexity, outstandingness, outward show, overelaborateness, overelegance, overornamentation, parade, performance, platitudinous ponderosity, playacting, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, pose, posing, posture, presentation, presentment, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, pretext, production, projection, prominence, pronouncedness, prose run mad, representation, retrospective, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, richness, rococo, salience, saliency, seeming, semblance, sensationalism, sententiousness, sham, show, showiness, showing, simulacrum, simulation, speciousness, stiltedness, strikingness, strong relief, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tortuosity, tortuousness, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, varnish, varnishing day, vernissage, window dressing
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