Exact Match:
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- big talk,
- blowing up,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- command of language,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- expression of ideas,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- form of speech,
- grace of expression,
- hard word,
- heightening,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- jawbreaker,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- long word,
- magnification,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- orotundity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- polysyllable,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- pontificality,
- pontification,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- self-importance,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sesquipedalian,
- strain,
- stretching,
- stuffiness,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- superlative,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- touting,
- travesty,
- trick,
- turgidity,
- vein,
- way
- bombast
collapse - pompous or pretentious talk or writing related words >
- absurdity,
- amphigory,
- babble,
- babblement,
- balderdash,
- bibble-babble,
- blabber,
- blather,
- bluster,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombastry,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- bravado,
- claptrap,
- conceit,
- double-talk,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fanfaronade,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddledeedee,
- flatulence,
- flummery,
- folderol,
- fudge,
- fustian,
- gabble,
- galimatias,
- gammon,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- gibber,
- gibberish,
- gibble-gabble,
- gobbledygook,
- grandiloquence,
- heroics,
- highfalutin,
- hocus-pocus,
- hot air,
- humbug,
- jabber,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jargon,
- lexiphanicism,
- magniloquence,
- mumbo jumbo,
- narrishkeit,
- niaiserie,
- nonsense,
- orotundity,
- pack of nonsense,
- palaver,
- prate,
- prattle,
- puffery,
- pyrotechnics,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoric,
- rigamarole,
- rigmarole,
- rodomontade,
- rubbish,
- sesquipedality,
- show,
- side,
- skimble-skamble,
- stuff and nonsense,
- stultiloquence,
- swagger,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- tumidity,
- turgidity,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- twiddle-twaddle,
- vanity,
- vaporing,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- waffling
- flatulence
collapse
- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal related words >
- Barnumism,
- aeriness,
- affectation,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- convolution,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- dropsy,
- edema,
- ethereality,
- fart,
- flashiness,
- flatulency,
- flatuosity,
- flatus,
- fluidity,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gas,
- gaseity,
- gaseous state,
- gaseousness,
- gassiness,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- high-flown diction,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- intumescence,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- meteorism,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- puff,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- vapor pressure,
- vaporiness,
- vaporousness,
- wind,
- windiness
- accent,
- amour-propre,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- autoeroticism,
- belief,
- certitude,
- cocksureness,
- complacency,
- concern,
- concernment,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- consequence,
- consequentiality,
- consideration,
- conviction,
- courage,
- ego trip,
- egoism,
- egotism,
- emphasis,
- excellence,
- faith,
- grandiloquence,
- high order,
- high rank,
- hubris,
- import,
- importance,
- inflation,
- interest,
- mark,
- materiality,
- merit,
- moment,
- narcism,
- narcissism,
- note,
- orotundity,
- overconfidence,
- overproudness,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweening pride,
- overweeningness,
- paramountcy,
- poise,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- pontificality,
- pontification,
- positiveness,
- precedence,
- preeminence,
- pride,
- primacy,
- priority,
- security,
- self-admiration,
- self-approbation,
- self-assurance,
- self-complacency,
- self-confidence,
- self-congratulation,
- self-consequence,
- self-content,
- self-delight,
- self-endearment,
- self-esteem,
- self-gratulation,
- self-infatuation,
- self-love,
- self-reliance,
- self-respect,
- self-satisfaction,
- self-sufficiency,
- self-worship,
- settled belief,
- significance,
- smugness,
- stress,
- stuffiness,
- subjective certainty,
- superiority,
- supremacy,
- sureness,
- surety,
- trust,
- turgidity,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory,
- vainness,
- value,
- vanity,
- weight,
- worth
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- blowing up,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- convolution,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- fancy talk,
- fine talk,
- fish story,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gas,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hot air,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall story,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- bedizenment,
- belief,
- big talk,
- buckram,
- ceremonial,
- ceremoniousness,
- ceremony,
- certitude,
- cocksureness,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- conviction,
- convolution,
- courage,
- dignity,
- extrinsicality,
- faith,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- form,
- formality,
- formalization,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- gravity,
- high-flown diction,
- hubris,
- impersonality,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- poise,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomp,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontificality,
- pontification,
- positiveness,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pride,
- primness,
- prose run mad,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- rigidness,
- ritual,
- rituality,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-confidence,
- self-importance,
- self-reliance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- settled belief,
- showiness,
- solemnity,
- starchiness,
- stiffness,
- stiltedness,
- stuffiness,
- stylization,
- subjective certainty,
- sureness,
- surety,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trust,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- weight
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- apparent character,
- appearances,
- arsenic green,
- bedizenment,
- beggarliness,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- brazenness,
- cheapness,
- clashing colors,
- coarseness,
- color clash,
- colorfulness,
- contemptibleness,
- convolution,
- crassness,
- crudeness,
- crudity,
- crumminess,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- despicableness,
- display,
- earthiness,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- facade,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- grossness,
- high-flown diction,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- jaundiced yellow,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- meanness,
- mere externals,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- meritlessness,
- miserableness,
- obscenity,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- paltriness,
- panache,
- pitiableness,
- pitifulness,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- poorness,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- public image,
- rawness,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- ribaldry,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- sadness,
- screaming color,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- shabbiness,
- shamelessness,
- shocking pink,
- shoddiness,
- show,
- showiness,
- sorriness,
- speciousness,
- sportiness,
- stiltedness,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unworthiness,
- vain show,
- vileness,
- vulgarness,
- worthlessness,
- wretchedness
- sensationalism
collapse
- the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation"
- subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes related words >
- Barnumism,
- Thespian art,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amateur theatricals,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- blood and thunder,
- blowing up,
- brazenness,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- colorfulness,
- convolution,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- demonstrativeness,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- extreme,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- huckstering,
- human interest,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- loudness,
- love interest,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- making scenes,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- nonrationalness,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- panache,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- play construction,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sententiousness,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- sportiness,
- staginess,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unreasoningness,
- visceralness,
- vulgarness,
- yellow journalism
- ostentation
collapse
- pretentious or showy or vulgar display
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- a gaudy outward display related words >
- 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
- convolution
collapse
- the action of coiling or twisting or winding together related words >
- Barnumism,
- aduncity,
- affectation,
- aquilinity,
- arachnoid,
- arbor vitae,
- arching,
- archipallium,
- arcuation,
- bedizenment,
- between brain,
- big talk,
- brain stem,
- cerebellar hemispheres,
- cerebellum,
- cerebral cortex,
- cerebrospinal fluid,
- cerebrum,
- circularity,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- concameration,
- concavity,
- convexity,
- corpus callosum,
- corpus striatum,
- crabbedness,
- crookedness,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curving,
- curvity,
- decurvation,
- decurvature,
- diencephalon,
- dura mater,
- endbrain,
- entanglement,
- excurvation,
- excurvature,
- fissure,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- folia,
- forebrain,
- fornix,
- frontal lobe,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- glial cells,
- globus pallidus,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- gray matter,
- gyrus,
- high-flown diction,
- hindbrain,
- hippocampus,
- hookedness,
- hypothalamus,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurvity,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- involution,
- involvement,
- lenticular nucleus,
- lexiphanicism,
- limbic lobe,
- little brain,
- lobe,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mantle,
- medulla oblongata,
- meninges,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- mesencephalon,
- metencephalon,
- midbrain,
- myelencephalon,
- neopallium,
- occipital lobe,
- optic chiasm,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- pallium,
- parietal lobe,
- perplexity,
- pia mater,
- pineal body,
- pituitary body,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pons,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- ramification,
- recurvation,
- recurvature,
- recurvity,
- reticular system,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- rhombencephalon,
- rondure,
- rotundity,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- stiltedness,
- subthalamus,
- subtlety,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- telencephalon,
- temporal lobe,
- thalamus,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- vaulting,
- ventricle,
- vermis,
- white matter
- rhetoric
collapse
- study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
- using language effectively to please or persuade related words >
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- articulateness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- bluster,
- bombast,
- choice of words,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- composition,
- convolution,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- dialect,
- diction,
- effective style,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- exaggeration,
- expression,
- expression of ideas,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- forensics,
- form of speech,
- formulation,
- fulsomeness,
- fustian,
- garishness,
- gasconade,
- gaudiness,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- grace of expression,
- grammar,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- graphicness,
- high-flown diction,
- highfalutin,
- homiletics,
- hot air,
- idiom,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- language,
- lecturing,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- locution,
- loftiness,
- long-windedness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- meaningfulness,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- oratory,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- parlance,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- platform oratory,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prolixity,
- prose run mad,
- public speaking,
- puffery,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoricalness,
- rodomontade,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- sesquipedality,
- showiness,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- smoothness,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- stump speaking,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- talk,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- vein,
- verbiage,
- verbosity,
- vividness,
- way,
- windiness,
- wordage,
- wordcraft,
- wordiness,
- wording
- pretension
collapse
- a false or unsupportable quality
- the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort" related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- ambitions,
- ambitiousness,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- aspiration,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- guise,
- handle,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- lexiphanicism,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- orotundity,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretending,
- pretense,
- pretensions,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- prose run mad,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- refuge,
- representation,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stiltedness,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- title,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
- stuffiness
collapse
- the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- state of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat related words >
- Quakerishness,
- THI,
- airlessness,
- antiquation,
- aridity,
- aridness,
- authoritarianism,
- barrenness,
- bigotry,
- blind side,
- blind spot,
- blinders,
- bloodlessness,
- callowness,
- cantankerousness,
- censoriousness,
- characterlessness,
- childishness,
- closed mind,
- closeness,
- colorlessness,
- contrariness,
- cramped ideas,
- cussedness,
- deadness,
- dearth of ideas,
- demureness,
- demurity,
- difficultness,
- dismalness,
- disuse,
- dourness,
- dragginess,
- dreariness,
- dryness,
- dullness,
- dustiness,
- effeteness,
- emptiness,
- etiolation,
- false modesty,
- fanaticism,
- fetidity,
- fetidness,
- flatness,
- fogyishness,
- foulness,
- frowardness,
- frowst,
- frowstiness,
- frowziness,
- funkiness,
- fustiness,
- grandiloquence,
- heaviness,
- hideboundness,
- hollowness,
- humidity,
- humidness,
- illiberality,
- immaturity,
- imprudence,
- inadvisability,
- inanity,
- inattention,
- inconsideration,
- indiscreetness,
- indiscretion,
- inexcitability,
- inexpedience,
- infecundity,
- infertility,
- inflation,
- injudiciousness,
- insipidity,
- insipidness,
- insularism,
- insularity,
- irascibility,
- irrationality,
- jejunity,
- leadenness,
- lifelessness,
- little-mindedness,
- littleness,
- lowness of spirit,
- malodorousness,
- mauvaise honte,
- mean mind,
- meanness,
- mildew,
- moldiness,
- mugginess,
- must,
- mustiness,
- narrow sympathies,
- narrow views,
- narrow-mindedness,
- narrowness,
- nearsightedness,
- noisomeness,
- odium theologicum,
- odorousness,
- offensiveness,
- old-fashionedness,
- old-fogyishness,
- oppression,
- oppressiveness,
- orneriness,
- orotundity,
- out-of-dateness,
- overmodesty,
- paleness,
- pallor,
- parochialism,
- perverseness,
- perversite,
- perversity,
- pettiness,
- petty mind,
- pointlessness,
- pokiness,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- ponderousness,
- pontificality,
- pontification,
- priggishness,
- primness,
- prosaicism,
- prosaicness,
- prosaism,
- prosiness,
- provincialism,
- prudery,
- prudishness,
- puerility,
- purblindness,
- puritanicalness,
- putridness,
- rancidity,
- rancidness,
- rankness,
- reasonlessness,
- reastiness,
- recklessness,
- repulsiveness,
- rottenness,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-importance,
- senselessness,
- shortsightedness,
- shut mind,
- slowness,
- smallness,
- smelliness,
- smugness,
- solemnity,
- spiritlessness,
- staidness,
- staleness,
- sterility,
- stickiness,
- stiff-neckedness,
- stiffness,
- stinkingness,
- stodginess,
- stolidity,
- straitlacedness,
- sulkiness,
- sullenness,
- superannuation,
- superficiality,
- swelter,
- tastelessness,
- tediousness,
- temperature-humidity index,
- thoughtlessness,
- turgidity,
- uncatholicity,
- uncreativeness,
- unfancifulness,
- unfashionableness,
- unimaginativeness,
- unintelligence,
- uninterestingness,
- unliveliness,
- unoriginality,
- unpoeticalness,
- unreason,
- unreasonableness,
- unsensibleness,
- unsoundness,
- unthoughtfulness,
- unwisdom,
- unwiseness,
- vapidity,
- vapidness,
- waywardness,
- witlessness,
- woodenness,
- wrongheadedness
- affectation
collapse
- a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display related words >
- Barnumism,
- Gongorism,
- act,
- acting,
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affectedness,
- air,
- airs,
- appearance,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- bearing,
- bedizenment,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- big talk,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- carriage,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- command of language,
- comportment,
- conduct,
- convolution,
- culture pattern,
- custom,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demeanor,
- deportment,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- doings,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- folkway,
- form of speech,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gestures,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- goings-on,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- guise,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hyperelegance,
- imposture,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- loftiness,
- lugs,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- maintien,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- manners,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- modus vivendi,
- motions,
- movements,
- moves,
- observable behavior,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outward show,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- pattern,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- poise,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- port,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- posturing,
- practice,
- praxis,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- presence,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- prose run mad,
- purism,
- representation,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- social science,
- speciousness,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tactics,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- tone,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vein,
- way,
- way of life,
- ways,
- window dressing
1
Advertisement