Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flashy display |
| Synonyms: | affectation, array, ceremonial, ceremony, extravagance, fanfare, flourish, formality, glitter, grandeur, grandiosity, magnificence, ostentation, pageant, panoply, parade, pomp, pomposity, show, spectacle, splash, splendor |
| Main Entry: | pomp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pageantry, display |
| Synonyms: | affectation, array, ceremonial, ceremony, fanfare, flourish, formality, grandeur, grandiosity, magnificence, ostentation, pageant, panoply, parade, pomposity, ritual, shine, show, solemnity, splendor, state, vainglory |
| Antonyms: | dullness, plainness, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | pretense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood, affected show; cover |
| Synonyms: | act, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, charade, claim, cloak, deceit, deception, display, dissimulation, double-dealing, dumb act, evasion, excuse, fabrication, facade, fakery, faking, falsification, feigning, gag, guise, insincerity, invention, make-believe, mask, masquerade, misrepresentation, misstatement, ostentation, posing, posturing, pretentiousness, pretext, routine, ruse, schtick, semblance, sham*, shuffling, simulation, stall, stunt, subterfuge, trickery, veil, veneer, wile |
| Antonyms: | honesty, openness, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | airs, snobbishness |
| Synonyms: | affectation, big talk, charade, conceit, disguise, fake*, false front, front, hypocrisy, ostentation, phony, pomposity, pretentiousness, put-on, self-importance, show, showboat, showiness, showoff, snobbery, splash*, vainglory, vanity |
| Antonyms: | honesty, humility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | show |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false front; appearance given |
| Synonyms: | affectation, air, display, effect, face*, front, grandstand play, guise, illusion, impression, likeness, make-believe, ostentation, parade, pose, pretense, pretext, profession, seeming, semblance, sham, shine*, showboat, showing, simulacrum, splash* |
| Notes: | in horse racing results, there is win, place, show, and also-ran |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conceit, egotism |
| Synonyms: | affectation, airs, arrogance, big-headedness, conceitedness, display, ego trip, narcissism, ostentation, pretension, pride, self-admiration, self-love, self-worship, show*, showing off, smugness, vainglory |
| Antonyms: | modesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | egoism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-centeredness |
| Synonyms: | arrogance, assurance, boastfulness, boasting, bragging, conceit, conceitedness, egocentricity, egomania, egotism, gasconade, haughtiness, insolence, megalomania, narcissism, ostentation, overconfidence, presumption, pride, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-confidence, self-importance, self-interest, self-love, self-possession, self-regard, self-worship, selfishness, superiority, swellheadedness, vainglory, vanity, vaunting |
| Notes: | egoism is an attempt to get excessive personal recognition for yourself while egotism is an exaggerated opinion of your own importance |
| Antonyms: | altruism, selflessness |
| Main Entry: | magnificence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grandeur |
| Synonyms: | beauty, brilliance, distinction, elegance, exaltedness, flourish, glitter, glory, grace, greatness, importance, impressiveness, lavishness, loftiness, luxuriousness, majesty, nobility, nobleness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomp, post*, pulchritude, radiance, resplendency, richness, show, spectacularity, splendor, stateliness, style, sublimity, sumptuousness, swank |
| Antonyms: | dullness, modesty, simplicity, ugliness, unostentatiousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pomposity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretension |
| Synonyms: | airs, arrogance, conceit, ostentation, overconfidence, presumption |
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