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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 display

Ostentation \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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  • OSTENTATION Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of OSTENTATION is excessive display : vain and unnecessary show especially for the purpose of attracting attention, admiration, or envy : pretentiousness How to use ostentation in a sentence
  • OSTENTATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    OSTENTATION definition: 1 the quality of being ostentatious: 2 the quality of being ostentatious: 3 a show of wealth… Learn more
  • OSTENTATION Definition Meaning - Dictionary. com
    Ostentation definition: pretentious or conspicuous show, as of wealth or importance; display intended to impress others See examples of OSTENTATION used in a sentence
  • Ostentation - definition of ostentation by The Free Dictionary
    Define ostentation ostentation synonyms, ostentation pronunciation, ostentation translation, English dictionary definition of ostentation n 1 Pretentious display meant to impress others; pretentious showiness 2 Archaic The act or an instance of showing; an exhibition American Heritage®
  • ostentation noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and . . .
    Definition of ostentation noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary an exaggerated display of wealth, knowledge or skill that is made in order to impress people The house was spacious but without any trace of ostentation The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words





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