pretentiousness

English

Etymology

pretentious +‎ -ness

Noun

pretentiousness (countable and uncountable, plural pretentiousnesses)

  1. The quality of being pretentious.
    • 2015, Cathy Lubenski, Trashy Chic:
      Possibly her sheer pretentiousness, or that she knew everything about everything, or maybe because she treated her reporters like underoxygenated platypies.

Synonyms
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.