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ostentation: pretentious or showy or vulgar display; lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity; a gaudy outward display

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chinoiserie collapse: a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned

retrospective collapse: an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work; concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification"

elaborateness collapse: marked by elaborately complex detail

pretence collapse

blatancy collapse: the property of being both obvious and offensive; "the blatancy of his attempt to whitewash the crime was unforgivable"

salience collapse: the state of being salient

unveiling collapse: putting on display for the first time; "he attended the unveiling of the statue"

fakery collapse: the act of faking (or the product of faking)

posing collapse

flamboyance collapse: extravagant elaborateness; "he wrote with great flamboyance"

rococo collapse: fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century; having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"

dissemblance collapse

glitter collapse: the quality of shining with a bright reflected light; the occurrence of a small flash or spark; be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening"

playacting collapse

exhibition collapse: the act of exhibiting; "a remarkable exhibition of musicianship"; a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display

notoriety collapse: the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality

enactment collapse: the passing of a law by a legislative body

pretext collapse: something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

arabesque collapse: an ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate design; position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose

flatulence collapse: a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal

false show collapse

unfolding collapse: a developmental process; "the flowering of antebellum culture"

simulation collapse: the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training); (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated"

big talk collapse

pomposity collapse

embellishment collapse: a superfluous ornament; elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings"

window dressing collapse: the decoration of shop windows

speciousness collapse: an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"

imposture collapse: pretending to be another person

presentment collapse: an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative; a document that must be accepted and paid by another person

prominence collapse: relative importance; the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent

acting collapse: the performance of a part or role in a drama

showing collapse

gaudiness collapse

frill collapse: a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim; an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal; (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs

false front collapse

pretense collapse: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"; imaginative intellectual play; pretending with intention to deceive

deception collapse: the act of deceiving

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