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pompousness
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callowness
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childishness
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immaturity
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imprudence
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inadvisability
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inattention
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inconsideration
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indiscreetness
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indiscretion
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inexpedience
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injudiciousness
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irrationality
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pompousness
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puerility
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reasonlessness
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recklessness
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senselessness
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stuffiness
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thoughtlessness
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unintelligence
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unreasonableness
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unsensibleness
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unsoundness
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unthoughtfulness
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unwisdom
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unwiseness
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witlessness
puerility
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babyishness
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boylikeness
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callowness
,
childishness
,
childlikeness
,
girlishness
,
immaturity
,
imprudence
,
inadvisability
,
inattention
,
inconsideration
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
inexpedience
,
infantilism
,
injudiciousness
,
irrationality
,
maidenliness
,
pompousness
,
puerilism
,
reasonlessness
,
recklessness
,
senselessness
,
stuffiness
,
thoughtlessness
,
unintelligence
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unsensibleness
,
unsoundness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
unwisdom
,
unwiseness
,
witlessness
snobbery
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the trait of condescending to those of lower social status
related words >
affectation
,
clannishness
,
cliquishness
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conceit
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condescension
,
contemptuousness
,
disdain
,
disdainfulness
,
egotism
,
exclusiveness
,
haughtiness
,
hauteur
,
inflatedness
,
loftiness
,
lordliness
,
narcissism
,
pomposity
,
pompousness
,
presumptuousness
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
priggishness
,
priggism
,
selectiveness
,
selectivity
,
selectness
,
self-admiration
,
self-importance
,
smugness
,
sniffiness
,
snobbiness
,
snobbishness
,
snobbism
,
snootiness
,
snottiness
,
superciliousness
,
tufthunting
,
uppishness
,
vainness
,
vanity
childishness
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a property characteristic of a child
related words >
anility
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babyishness
,
boylikeness
,
caducity
,
callowness
,
childlikeness
,
decline
,
dotage
,
dotardism
,
girlishness
,
immaturity
,
imprudence
,
inadvisability
,
inattention
,
inconsideration
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
inexpedience
,
infantilism
,
injudiciousness
,
irrationality
,
maidenliness
,
pompousness
,
puerilism
,
puerility
,
reasonlessness
,
recklessness
,
second childhood
,
senectitude
,
senile debility
,
senile dementia
,
senile psychosis
,
senile weakness
,
senilism
,
senility
,
senselessness
,
stuffiness
,
thoughtlessness
,
unintelligence
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unsensibleness
,
unsoundness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
unwisdom
,
unwiseness
,
witlessness
bad taste
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Babbittry
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Gothicism
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
bombasticness
,
bourgeois taste
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
camp
,
campiness
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
crudeness
,
cumbrousness
,
dysphemism
,
gracelessness
,
grossness
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
high camp
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
inappropriateness
,
inconcinnity
,
incorrectness
,
indecency
,
indecorousness
,
indecorum
,
indelicacy
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
infelicity
,
kitsch
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
leadenness
,
low camp
,
philistinism
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
poor taste
,
pop
,
pop culture
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
slipshod construction
,
stiltedness
,
tastelessness
,
turgidity
,
unaestheticism
,
unaestheticness
,
unbecomingness
,
uncouthness
,
uneuphoniousness
,
unfittingness
,
ungracefulness
,
unrefinement
,
unseemliness
,
unsuitability
,
unsuitableness
,
unwieldiness
,
vulgar taste
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
,
vulgarness
unreasonableness
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related words >
abandon
,
antilogy
,
boundlessness
,
callowness
,
childishness
,
egregiousness
,
enormousness
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
excessiveness
,
exorbitance
,
exorbitancy
,
extortionateness
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
extreme
,
extremes
,
extremism
,
extremity
,
fabulousness
,
giantism
,
gigantism
,
gluttony
,
hyperbole
,
hypertrophy
,
illogic
,
illogicality
,
illogicalness
,
immaturity
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
imprudence
,
inadvisability
,
inattention
,
inconclusiveness
,
incongruity
,
inconsideration
,
inconsistency
,
incontinence
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
inexpedience
,
injudiciousness
,
inordinacy
,
inordinance
,
inordinateness
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
invalidity
,
irrationality
,
monstrousness
,
nimiety
,
outrageousness
,
overdevelopment
,
overgreatness
,
overgrowth
,
overindulgence
,
overlargeness
,
overmuch
,
overmuchness
,
pompousness
,
preposterousness
,
puerility
,
radicalism
,
reasonlessness
,
recklessness
,
senselessness
,
stuffiness
,
thoughtlessness
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
unconscionableness
,
undueness
,
unintelligence
,
unreason
,
unrestrainedness
,
unscientificness
,
unsensibleness
,
unsoundness
,
untenableness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
unwisdom
,
unwiseness
,
witlessness
imprudence
collapse
a lack of caution in practical affairs
related words >
absurdity
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act of folly
,
blunder
,
brashness
,
brass
,
brazen boldness
,
callowness
,
casualness
,
cheek
,
childishness
,
chutzpah
,
crudity of intellect
,
dumb trick
,
folly
,
gall
,
heroics
,
hubris
,
immaturity
,
improvidence
,
impudence
,
inadvisability
,
inattention
,
inconsideration
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
indiscriminateness
,
indiscrimination
,
inexpedience
,
injudiciousness
,
insensibility
,
insensitivity
,
insolence
,
irrationality
,
lack of feeling
,
lack of refinement
,
overboldness
,
overcarelessness
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweeningness
,
pompousness
,
promiscuity
,
promiscuousness
,
puerility
,
rashness
,
reasonlessness
,
recklessness
,
senselessness
,
sottise
,
stuffiness
,
stupid thing
,
stupidity
,
syncretism
,
tactlessness
,
temerariousness
,
temerity
,
thoughtlessness
,
unchariness
,
uncriticalness
,
undiscriminatingness
,
undiscriminativeness
,
unfastidiousness
,
unintelligence
,
unmeticulousness
,
unparticularness
,
unpreciseness
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unselectiveness
,
unsensibleness
,
unsoundness
,
untactfulness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
unwariness
,
unwisdom
,
unwise step
,
unwiseness
,
witlessness
inexpedience
collapse
the quality of being unsuited to the end in view
related words >
bad policy
,
badness
,
callowness
,
childishness
,
damnability
,
evilness
,
immaturity
,
impolicy
,
improperness
,
impropriety
,
imprudence
,
inaccuracy
,
inadvisability
,
inappropriateness
,
inattention
,
inauspiciousness
,
inconsideration
,
inconvenience
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
inexpediency
,
infelicity
,
inferiority
,
injudiciousness
,
inopportuneness
,
inopportunity
,
intempestivity
,
interruption
,
intrusion
,
invalidity
,
irrationality
,
irrelevance
,
lateness
,
maladministration
,
malevolence
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
misadministration
,
misconduct
,
misdirection
,
misfeasance
,
misgovernment
,
misguidance
,
mishandling
,
mismanagement
,
misrule
,
moral badness
,
neglect
,
negligence
,
nonfeasance
,
omission
,
peccancy
,
pompousness
,
prematurity
,
puerility
,
reasonlessness
,
recklessness
,
reprehensibility
,
senselessness
,
stuffiness
,
thoughtlessness
,
unfavorableness
,
unfitness
,
unfittingness
,
unfortunateness
,
unhealthiness
,
unintelligence
,
unkindness
,
unpleasantness
,
unpropitiousness
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unripeness
,
unseasonableness
,
unsensibleness
,
unskillfulness
,
unsoundness
,
unsuitability
,
unthoughtfulness
,
untimeliness
,
unwisdom
,
unwiseness
,
viciousness
,
wickedness
,
witlessness
,
wrongdoing
,
wrongness
vulgarism
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related words >
Babbittry
,
Gothicism
,
bad taste
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
bombasticness
,
bourgeois taste
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
camp
,
campiness
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
colloquialism
,
corruption
,
crudeness
,
cumbrousness
,
dysphemism
,
gracelessness
,
grossness
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
high camp
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
inappropriateness
,
inconcinnity
,
incorrectness
,
indecency
,
indecorousness
,
indecorum
,
indelicacy
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
infelicity
,
kitsch
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
leadenness
,
localism
,
low camp
,
philistinism
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
poor taste
,
pop
,
pop culture
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
slang
,
slipshod construction
,
solecism
,
stiltedness
,
taboo word
,
tastelessness
,
turgidity
,
unaestheticism
,
unaestheticness
,
unbecomingness
,
uncouthness
,
uneuphoniousness
,
unfittingness
,
ungracefulness
,
unrefinement
,
unseemliness
,
unsuitability
,
unsuitableness
,
unwieldiness
,
vernacularism
,
vulgar taste
,
vulgarity
,
vulgarness
grandiloquence
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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
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
recklessness
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the trait of giving little thought to danger
related words >
abandon
,
accidia
,
acedia
,
apathy
,
ataraxia
,
ataraxy
,
callowness
,
careless abandon
,
carelessness
,
casualness
,
childishness
,
cursoriness
,
desperateness
,
detachment
,
devil-may-careness
,
disinterest
,
dispassion
,
disregard
,
disregardfulness
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
forgetfulness
,
furiousness
,
haste
,
hastiness
,
heedlessness
,
hotheadedness
,
hurriedness
,
immaturity
,
impatience
,
impetuosity
,
impetuousness
,
imprudence
,
impulsiveness
,
inadvisability
,
inattention
,
inconsiderateness
,
inconsideration
,
incuriosity
,
indifference
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
indiscrimination
,
inexcitability
,
inexpedience
,
injudiciousness
,
insouciance
,
irrationality
,
lack of affect
,
lack of foresight
,
lackadaisicalness
,
laziness
,
listlessness
,
mindlessness
,
negligence
,
nonchalance
,
oblivion
,
offhandedness
,
overeagerness
,
overenthusiasm
,
overhastiness
,
overzealousness
,
perfunctoriness
,
pococurantism
,
pompousness
,
precipitance
,
precipitancy
,
precipitateness
,
precipitation
,
precipitousness
,
puerility
,
quickness
,
rashness
,
reasonlessness
,
regardlessness
,
senselessness
,
sloth
,
sprezzatura
,
stuffiness
,
suddenness
,
tactlessness
,
thoughtlessness
,
unanxiousness
,
unconcern
,
unheedfulness
,
unintelligence
,
unmindfulness
,
unpreparedness
,
unreadiness
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unsensibleness
,
unsolicitousness
,
unsolicitude
,
unsoundness
,
unthinkingness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
unwisdom
,
unwiseness
,
wantonness
,
wildness
,
witlessness
self-importance
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related words >
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
inattention
collapse
lack of attention
related words >
accidia
,
acedia
,
apathy
,
ataraxia
,
ataraxy
,
callowness
,
carelessness
,
casualness
,
childishness
,
culpa
,
culpable negligence
,
default
,
delinquency
,
dereliction
,
detachment
,
disconformity
,
disinterest
,
dispassion
,
disregard
,
disregardfulness
,
distractedness
,
distraction
,
diversion
,
divided attention
,
easygoingness
,
failure
,
heedlessness
,
immaturity
,
imprudence
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
inadvisability
,
inconsideration
,
incuriosity
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
indiscrimination
,
inexcitability
,
inexpedience
,
injudiciousness
,
inobservance
,
insouciance
,
irrationality
,
laches
,
lack of affect
,
lackadaisicalness
,
laissez-faire
,
lapse
,
laxity
,
laxness
,
listlessness
,
looseness
,
mindlessness
,
neglect
,
neglectfulness
,
negligence
,
nonadherence
,
nonchalance
,
noncompliance
,
nonconformance
,
nonconformity
,
nonfeasance
,
nonfulfillment
,
noninterference
,
nonobservance
,
nonperformance
,
nonrestriction
,
omission
,
overlooking
,
oversight
,
permissiveness
,
pococurantism
,
pompousness
,
poor stewardship
,
procrastination
,
puerility
,
reasonlessness
,
recklessness
,
regardlessness
,
remissness
,
senselessness
,
slackness
,
slight
,
sloth
,
stuffiness
,
thoughtlessness
,
unanxiousness
,
unconcern
,
unintelligence
,
unmindfulness
,
unobservance
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unrigorousness
,
unsensibleness
,
unsolicitousness
,
unsoundness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
unwisdom
,
unwiseness
,
withdrawal of attention
,
witlessness
barbarism
collapse
related words >
Gothicism
,
Irish bull
,
Neanderthalism
,
age of ignorance
,
animality
,
antiphrasis
,
bad taste
,
barbarity
,
barbarousness
,
benightedness
,
benightment
,
bestiality
,
bombasticness
,
brutality
,
brutishness
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
colloquialism
,
corruption
,
crudeness
,
cumbrousness
,
dark
,
dark age
,
darkness
,
dysphemism
,
error
,
foreignism
,
gracelessness
,
grossness
,
harshness
,
heathenism
,
heaviness
,
ill breeding
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
impoliteness
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
incivility
,
inconcinnity
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
infelicity
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
lapse
,
leadenness
,
localism
,
malaprop
,
malapropism
,
misconstruction
,
missaying
,
misusage
,
misuse
,
neologism
,
paganism
,
philistinism
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
savagery
,
savagism
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
shibboleth
,
slang
,
slip
,
slipshod construction
,
solecism
,
spoonerism
,
stiltedness
,
taboo word
,
tastelessness
,
troglodytism
,
turgidity
,
uncivilizedness
,
uncouthness
,
uncultivatedness
,
uncultivation
,
unculturedness
,
unenlightenment
,
uneuphoniousness
,
ungracefulness
,
ungrammaticism
,
unrefinement
,
unseemliness
,
unwieldiness
,
vernacularism
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
,
wildness
irrationality
collapse
the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding
related words >
Urdummheit
,
aberration
,
abnormality
,
alienation
,
antilogy
,
brain damage
,
brainlessness
,
brainsickness
,
callowness
,
childishness
,
clouded mind
,
craziness
,
daftness
,
dementedness
,
dementia
,
derangement
,
disorientation
,
distraction
,
folie
,
foolishness
,
furor
,
ignorance
,
illogic
,
illogicality
,
illogicalness
,
immaturity
,
imprudence
,
inadvisability
,
inattention
,
incapacity
,
inconclusiveness
,
incongruity
,
inconsideration
,
inconsistency
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
ineptitude
,
inexpedience
,
injudiciousness
,
insaneness
,
insanity
,
invalidity
,
lackbrainedness
,
lackwittedness
,
loss of mind
,
loss of reason
,
low IQ
,
lunacy
,
madness
,
mania
,
mental deficiency
,
mental derangement
,
mental disease
,
mental disorder
,
mental disturbance
,
mental illness
,
mental instability
,
mental sickness
,
mental weakness
,
mind overthrown
,
mindlessness
,
mindsickness
,
oddness
,
pixilation
,
pompousness
,
possession
,
primal stupidity
,
puerility
,
queerness
,
rabidness
,
reasonlessness
,
recklessness
,
senselessness
,
shattered mind
,
sick mind
,
sickness
,
slackmindedness
,
slackwittedness
,
strangeness
,
stuffiness
,
thoughtlessness
,
unbalance
,
unbalanced mind
,
unintellectuality
,
unintelligence
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unsaneness
,
unscientificness
,
unsensibleness
,
unsound mind
,
unsoundness
,
unsoundness of mind
,
untenableness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
unwisdom
,
unwiseness
,
witlessness
unintelligence
collapse
related words >
agnosticism
,
blank mind
,
blankmindedness
,
blankness
,
callowness
,
calm of mind
,
childishness
,
emptiness of mind
,
empty-headedness
,
fallow mind
,
fatuity
,
foolishness
,
greenhornism
,
greenness
,
hiatus of learning
,
ignorance
,
ignorantism
,
ignorantness
,
immaturity
,
imprudence
,
inability
,
inadeptness
,
inadequacy
,
inadvisability
,
inanity
,
inaptitude
,
inaptness
,
inattention
,
inattentiveness
,
incapability
,
incapacity
,
incompetence
,
incompetency
,
inconsideration
,
indexterity
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
ineffectiveness
,
ineffectuality
,
inefficiency
,
ineptness
,
inexpedience
,
inexperience
,
injudiciousness
,
innocence
,
irrationality
,
know-nothingism
,
knowledge-gap
,
lack of information
,
maladjustment
,
maladroitness
,
mediocrity
,
mental blankness
,
nescience
,
nirvana
,
oblivion
,
obscurantism
,
passivity
,
pedestrianism
,
pompousness
,
puerility
,
quietism
,
rawness
,
reasonlessness
,
recklessness
,
rustiness
,
senselessness
,
simpleness
,
simplicity
,
skill-lessness
,
stuffiness
,
tabula rasa
,
thoughtfreeness
,
thoughtlessness
,
tranquillity
,
unacquaintance
,
unaptness
,
uncleverness
,
undeftness
,
undexterousness
,
undextrousness
,
unfamiliarity
,
unfitness
,
unfittedness
,
unknowing
,
unknowingness
,
unproficiency
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unripeness
,
unschooledness
,
unsensibleness
,
unskillfulness
,
unsoundness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
untrainedness
,
unwisdom
,
unwiseness
,
vacancy
,
vacuity
,
vacuousness
,
witlessness
big talk
collapse
related words >
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
pomposity
collapse
related words >
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
vulgarity
collapse
related words >
Gothicism
,
bad manners
,
bad taste
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
baseness
,
bombasticness
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
caddishness
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
crudeness
,
cumbrousness
,
deficiency
,
discourteousness
,
discourtesy
,
dysphemism
,
earthiness
,
failure
,
fewness
,
filthiness
,
foulness
,
frankness
,
gaucherie
,
gracelessness
,
gross behavior
,
grossness
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
humbleness
,
ignobility
,
ill breeding
,
ill manners
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
imperfection
,
impoliteness
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
inadequacy
,
incivility
,
incompetence
,
inconcinnity
,
inconsiderateness
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
indelicacy
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
infelicity
,
insensitivity
,
insufficiency
,
inurbanity
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
lack of refinement
,
leadenness
,
lewdness
,
littleness
,
loutishness
,
maladroitness
,
mannerlessness
,
meanness
,
mediocrity
,
obscenity
,
offensiveness
,
pettiness
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
raciness
,
rankness
,
rawness
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
saltiness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
shabbiness
,
slipshod construction
,
smallness
,
spiciness
,
stiltedness
,
subnormality
,
tactlessness
,
tastelessness
,
tawdriness
,
triviality
,
turgidity
,
uncourtliness
,
uncouthness
,
uneuphoniousness
,
ungallantness
,
ungentlemanliness
,
ungracefulness
,
ungraciousness
,
unmannerliness
,
unpoliteness
,
unrefinement
,
unseemliness
,
unskillfulness
,
unsolicitousness
,
unsophistication
,
unwieldiness
,
vileness
,
vulgarism
arrogance
collapse
overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
related words >
airs
,
assurance
,
assuredness
,
audacity
,
belief
,
bluster
,
boastfulness
,
bold front
,
boldness
,
brash bearing
,
brashness
,
brassiness
,
bravado
,
brazenness
,
bumptiousness
,
certitude
,
cheekiness
,
clannishness
,
cliquishness
,
cockiness
,
cocksureness
,
conceit
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
contempt
,
contemptuousness
,
contumely
,
conviction
,
courage
,
daring
,
daringness
,
defial
,
defiance
,
defying
,
derision
,
despite
,
disdain
,
disdainfulness
,
disparagement
,
disregard
,
effrontery
,
egotism
,
exclusiveness
,
face
,
faith
,
gall
,
hardihood
,
haughtiness
,
hauteur
,
hubris
,
impertinence
,
impudence
,
independence
,
insolence
,
insult
,
loftiness
,
morgue
,
nerve
,
obtrusiveness
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
pardonable pride
,
pertness
,
poise
,
pomposity
,
pompousness
,
positiveness
,
presumption
,
presumptuousness
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
pride
,
pridefulness
,
procacity
,
proudness
,
purse-pride
,
pushiness
,
ridicule
,
sauciness
,
scorn
,
scornfulness
,
security
,
self-assertion
,
self-assurance
,
self-confidence
,
self-consequence
,
self-esteem
,
self-importance
,
self-reliance
,
self-respect
,
self-sufficiency
,
settled belief
,
side
,
sniffiness
,
snobbery
,
snobbishness
,
snootiness
,
snottiness
,
sovereign contempt
,
stiff-necked pride
,
stiff-neckedness
,
subjective certainty
,
superciliousness
,
sureness
,
surety
,
toploftiness
,
trust
,
uppishness
,
uppityness
,
vanity
immaturity
collapse
not having reached maturity
related words >
adulteration
,
amateurishness
,
amateurism
,
arrestment
,
babyishness
,
brand-newness
,
callowness
,
childishness
,
coarseness
,
crudeness
,
crudity
,
defectibility
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
dewiness
,
erroneousness
,
fallibility
,
faultiness
,
freshness
,
gloss of novelty
,
greenness
,
ignorance
,
immatureness
,
impairment
,
imperfection
,
imprudence
,
impurity
,
inaccuracy
,
inadequacy
,
inadequateness
,
inadvisability
,
inattention
,
incompleteness
,
incompletion
,
inconsideration
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
inexactitude
,
inexactness
,
inexpedience
,
inexperience
,
infancy
,
infantilism
,
injudiciousness
,
intactness
,
irrationality
,
juiciness
,
juniority
,
lack
,
lateness
,
maidenhood
,
mediocrity
,
minority
,
mint condition
,
newbornness
,
newfangledness
,
newfangleness
,
newness
,
nonage
,
nondevelopment
,
novelness
,
novelty
,
nowness
,
originality
,
oversimplicity
,
oversimplification
,
patchiness
,
pompousness
,
presentness
,
pristineness
,
puerilism
,
puerility
,
rawness
,
reasonlessness
,
recency
,
recentness
,
recklessness
,
reductionism
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
sappiness
,
scrappiness
,
senselessness
,
short measure
,
short weight
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
simplism
,
sketchiness
,
strangeness
,
stuffiness
,
the rough
,
thoughtlessness
,
unaccustomedness
,
unacquaintance
,
unacquaintedness
,
uncommonness
,
uncultivation
,
underdevelopment
,
undevelopment
,
unevenness
,
unexperiencedness
,
unfamiliarity
,
unfinish
,
unfinishedness
,
unfledgedness
,
unintelligence
,
unperfectedness
,
unpracticedness
,
unprofessionalism
,
unprofessionalness
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unrefinement
,
unripeness
,
unsensibleness
,
unsoundness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
unusualness
,
unwisdom
,
unwiseness
,
virginity
,
want
,
witlessness
rudeness
collapse
related words >
Gothicism
,
bad manners
,
bad taste
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
bombasticness
,
brashness
,
brassiness
,
brazenfacedness
,
brazenness
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
caddishness
,
callowness
,
cheekiness
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
cockiness
,
contempt
,
cracked voice
,
crassness
,
crudeness
,
crudity
,
cumbrousness
,
derision
,
discord
,
discourteousness
,
discourtesy
,
disrespectfulness
,
dryness
,
dysphemism
,
earthiness
,
face of brass
,
flippancy
,
freshness
,
gaudiness
,
gracelessness
,
greenness
,
gross behavior
,
grossness
,
gruffness
,
gutturalism
,
gutturality
,
gutturalness
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
hoarseness
,
huskiness
,
ill breeding
,
ill manners
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
immatureness
,
immaturity
,
impertinence
,
impoliteness
,
impropriety
,
impudence
,
impurity
,
incivility
,
inconcinnity
,
inconsiderateness
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
infelicity
,
insensitivity
,
inurbanity
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
leadenness
,
loudness
,
loutishness
,
mannerlessness
,
meretriciousness
,
nondevelopment
,
obscenity
,
offensiveness
,
oversimplicity
,
oversimplification
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
raspiness
,
raucity
,
rawness
,
reductionism
,
ribaldry
,
ridicule
,
roughness
,
scrapiness
,
scratchiness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
simplism
,
slipshod construction
,
stertorousness
,
stiltedness
,
tactlessness
,
tastelessness
,
the rough
,
thickness
,
throatiness
,
turgidity
,
ugliness
,
uncourtliness
,
uncouthness
,
uncultivation
,
undevelopment
,
uneuphoniousness
,
unfinish
,
unfinishedness
,
unfledgedness
,
ungallantness
,
ungentlemanliness
,
ungracefulness
,
ungraciousness
,
unmannerliness
,
unpoliteness
,
unrefinement
,
unripeness
,
unseemliness
,
unsolicitousness
,
unwieldiness
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
ponderousness
collapse
an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency; "a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness"; "his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"
related words >
Gothicism
,
aridity
,
avoirdupois
,
awkwardness
,
bad taste
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
barrenness
,
beef
,
beefiness
,
bloodlessness
,
bombasticness
,
boorishness
,
bulkiness
,
bumblingness
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
characterlessness
,
clownishness
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
colorlessness
,
crudeness
,
cumbersomeness
,
cumbrousness
,
deadness
,
deadweight
,
dismalness
,
dragginess
,
dreariness
,
dryness
,
dullness
,
dustiness
,
dysphemism
,
effeteness
,
emptiness
,
etiolation
,
fatness
,
flatness
,
gawkiness
,
gawkishness
,
gracelessness
,
gravity
,
gross weight
,
grossness
,
ham-handedness
,
handful of thumbs
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
heavy-handedness
,
heft
,
heftiness
,
hollowness
,
hulkiness
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
impracticality
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
inanity
,
inconcinnity
,
inconvenience
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
inexcitability
,
infelicity
,
insipidity
,
insipidness
,
jejunity
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
leadenness
,
left-handedness
,
lifelessness
,
liveweight
,
loutishness
,
lowness of spirit
,
lubberliness
,
lumpishness
,
maladroitness
,
massiveness
,
neat weight
,
net
,
net weight
,
oafishness
,
overbalance
,
overweight
,
paleness
,
pallor
,
pointlessness
,
pokiness
,
pompousness
,
ponderability
,
ponderosity
,
poor diction
,
poundage
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
slipshod construction
,
slowness
,
solemnity
,
spiritlessness
,
sterility
,
stiffness
,
stiltedness
,
stodginess
,
stuffiness
,
superficiality
,
tastelessness
,
tediousness
,
tonnage
,
turgidity
,
uncouthness
,
underweight
,
uneuphoniousness
,
ungainliness
,
ungracefulness
,
unhandiness
,
uninterestingness
,
unliveliness
,
unmanageability
,
unrefinement
,
unseemliness
,
unwieldiness
,
vapidity
,
vapidness
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
,
weight
,
weightiness
,
woodenness
infelicity
collapse
inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
related words >
Gothicism
,
abnormality
,
aching heart
,
agony
,
agony of mind
,
anguish
,
anomaly
,
antiphrasis
,
bad taste
,
bale
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
bitterness
,
bleeding heart
,
bombasticness
,
broken heart
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
cheerlessness
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
corruption
,
crudeness
,
crushing
,
cumbrousness
,
depression
,
depth of misery
,
desolation
,
despair
,
discontent
,
displeasure
,
dysphemism
,
extremity
,
futility
,
gracelessness
,
grief
,
grimness
,
grossness
,
harshness
,
heartache
,
heaviness
,
heavy heart
,
humorlessness
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
impoliticalness
,
impoliticness
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
inadmissibility
,
inadvisability
,
inapplicability
,
inappositeness
,
inappropriateness
,
inaptitude
,
inaptness
,
inauspiciousness
,
inconcinnity
,
incongruity
,
inconvenience
,
inconveniency
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
ineptitude
,
inexpedience
,
inexpediency
,
infestivity
,
inopportuneness
,
inopportunity
,
intempestivity
,
interruption
,
intrusion
,
irrelevance
,
irrelevancy
,
joylessness
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
lateness
,
leadenness
,
maladjustment
,
malapropism
,
melancholia
,
melancholy
,
mesalliance
,
mirthlessness
,
misalliance
,
misconstruction
,
misery
,
misjoinder
,
misjoining
,
mismatch
,
missaying
,
misusage
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
prematurity
,
prostration
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
sadness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
slipshod construction
,
solecism
,
stiltedness
,
suicidal despair
,
tastelessness
,
turgidity
,
uncheerfulness
,
uncongeniality
,
uncouthness
,
undesirability
,
uneuphoniousness
,
unfavorableness
,
unfitness
,
unfittingness
,
unfortunateness
,
ungracefulness
,
ungrammaticism
,
unhappiness
,
unjoyfulness
,
unmeetness
,
unmirthfulness
,
unprofitability
,
unprofitableness
,
unpropitiousness
,
unrefinement
,
unripeness
,
unseasonableness
,
unseemliness
,
unsuitability
,
untimeliness
,
unwieldiness
,
unwiseness
,
uselessness
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
,
woe
,
worthlessness
,
wretchedness
,
wrongness
gaudiness
collapse
related words >
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
cacophony
collapse
loud confusing disagreeable sounds
related words >
Babel
,
Gothicism
,
agitation
,
atonalism
,
atonality
,
bad taste
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
bedlam
,
bluster
,
bombasticness
,
brawl
,
broil
,
brouhaha
,
cacology
,
chaos
,
clinker
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
commotion
,
confusion of tongues
,
cracked voice
,
crudeness
,
cumbrousness
,
defacement
,
discord
,
discordance
,
discordancy
,
disfigurement
,
disharmony
,
dissonance
,
dissonancy
,
dissonant chord
,
disturbance
,
dryness
,
dysphemism
,
ebullition
,
embroilment
,
fanaticism
,
ferment
,
flap
,
flatness
,
fomentation
,
foofaraw
,
frenzy
,
fume
,
furor
,
furore
,
fury
,
fuss
,
gracelessness
,
grossness
,
gruffness
,
gutturalism
,
gutturality
,
gutturalness
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
hell
,
hoarseness
,
homeliness
,
hubbub
,
huskiness
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
ill-favoredness
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
inconcinnity
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
infelicity
,
inharmoniousness
,
inharmony
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
leadenness
,
noise
,
off note
,
pandemonium
,
passion
,
plainness
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
racket
,
rage
,
raspiness
,
raucity
,
roughness
,
row
,
ruckus
,
rudeness
,
rumpus
,
scrapiness
,
scratchiness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
shapelessness
,
sharpness
,
slipshod construction
,
sour note
,
sourness
,
static
,
stertorousness
,
stiltedness
,
storminess
,
stridor
,
tastelessness
,
tempestuousness
,
thickness
,
throatiness
,
tumult
,
tumultuousness
,
tunelessness
,
turbulence
,
turgidity
,
turmoil
,
uglification
,
uglifying
,
ugliness
,
unaestheticness
,
unattractiveness
,
unbeautifulness
,
uncomeliness
,
uncouthness
,
uneuphoniousness
,
ungainliness
,
ungracefulness
,
unhandsomeness
,
unharmoniousness
,
unloveliness
,
unmusicality
,
unpleasingness
,
unprettiness
,
unrefinement
,
unseemliness
,
unshapeliness
,
unsightliness
,
untunefulness
,
unwieldiness
,
uproar
,
upset
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
,
wildness
,
wolf
,
zeal
,
zealousness
thoughtlessness
collapse
related words >
abandon
,
absentmindedness
,
asininity
,
battiness
,
brainlessness
,
buffoonery
,
callowness
,
caprice
,
careless abandon
,
carelessness
,
casualness
,
childishness
,
clownishness
,
crackpottedness
,
crankiness
,
craziness
,
cursoriness
,
daffiness
,
desipience
,
disregard
,
disregardfulness
,
distraction
,
easiness
,
eccentricity
,
empty-headedness
,
fatuity
,
fatuousness
,
fecklessness
,
flightiness
,
flippancy
,
folly
,
foolery
,
foolheadedness
,
foolishness
,
forgetfulness
,
frivolity
,
frivolousness
,
giddiness
,
goofiness
,
hastiness
,
heedlessness
,
idiocy
,
imbecility
,
immaturity
,
improvidence
,
imprudence
,
inability
,
inadeptness
,
inadequacy
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
inadvisability
,
inanity
,
inaptitude
,
inaptness
,
inattention
,
inattentiveness
,
incapability
,
incapacity
,
incompetence
,
incompetency
,
inconsiderateness
,
inconsideration
,
incuriosity
,
indexterity
,
indifference
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
ineffectiveness
,
ineffectuality
,
inefficiency
,
ineptitude
,
ineptness
,
inexpedience
,
injudiciousness
,
inobservance
,
insanity
,
insouciance
,
irrationality
,
lack of foresight
,
lax stewardship
,
laziness
,
levity
,
lightmindedness
,
lunacy
,
madness
,
maladjustment
,
maladroitness
,
mediocrity
,
mercuriality
,
mindlessness
,
negligence
,
niaiserie
,
nonobservance
,
nugacity
,
nuttiness
,
oblivion
,
obliviousness
,
offhandedness
,
pedestrianism
,
perfunctoriness
,
pompousness
,
poor husbandry
,
puerility
,
queerness
,
reasonlessness
,
recklessness
,
regardlessness
,
rustiness
,
sappiness
,
screwiness
,
senselessness
,
shallowness
,
shiftlessness
,
silliness
,
skill-lessness
,
sprezzatura
,
stuffiness
,
stupidity
,
superficiality
,
tactlessness
,
thriftlessness
,
triflingness
,
triviality
,
unaccommodatingness
,
unalertness
,
unaptness
,
unawareness
,
uncleverness
,
unconsciousness
,
undeftness
,
undexterousness
,
undextrousness
,
unfitness
,
unfittedness
,
unheedfulness
,
unhelpfulness
,
unintelligence
,
unintentiveness
,
unmindfulness
,
unobligingness
,
unobservance
,
unpreparedness
,
unproficiency
,
unreadiness
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unschooledness
,
unsensibleness
,
unskillfulness
,
unsolicitousness
,
unsolicitude
,
unsoundness
,
unthinkingness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
untrainedness
,
unwariness
,
unwatchfulness
,
unwisdom
,
unwiseness
,
volatility
,
wackiness
,
weirdness
,
witlessness
,
zaniness
,
zanyism
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
impurity
collapse
the condition of being impure
worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water"
related words >
Gothicism
,
adulteration
,
amorality
,
backsliding
,
bad taste
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
black sheep
,
blemish
,
bombasticness
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
carnality
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
contaminant
,
contamination
,
corruption
,
criminality
,
crudeness
,
cumbrousness
,
defectibility
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
defilement
,
degeneration
,
delinquency
,
depravity
,
dinginess
,
dirt
,
dirtiness
,
dissoluteness
,
dysphemism
,
erroneousness
,
evil
,
evil nature
,
fallibility
,
faultiness
,
filth
,
filthiness
,
foreign body
,
foreign intruder
,
foulness
,
gracelessness
,
griminess
,
grossness
,
grubbiness
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
immaturity
,
immorality
,
immundity
,
impairment
,
imperfection
,
impropriety
,
impurities
,
inaccuracy
,
inadequacy
,
inadequateness
,
incompleteness
,
inconcinnity
,
incorrectness
,
indecency
,
indecorousness
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
inexactitude
,
inexactness
,
infelicity
,
intruder
,
lack
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
lasciviousness
,
leadenness
,
lecherousness
,
lewdness
,
libidinousness
,
licentiousness
,
looseness
,
lubricity
,
lust
,
lustfulness
,
maculacy
,
mediocrity
,
messiness
,
miriness
,
misfit
,
monkey wrench
,
moral delinquency
,
mote
,
muddiness
,
obscenity
,
oddball
,
patchiness
,
peccability
,
pollution
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
prodigality
,
promiscuity
,
promiscuousness
,
prurience
,
recidivism
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
salaciousness
,
scruffiness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
sinfulness
,
sketchiness
,
slipshod construction
,
sliver
,
slovenliness
,
smut
,
soiledness
,
speck
,
splinter
,
stiltedness
,
stone
,
sulliedness
,
taintedness
,
tastelessness
,
turgidity
,
unangelicalness
,
unchasteness
,
unchastity
,
uncleanliness
,
uncleanness
,
uncouthness
,
undevelopment
,
uneuphoniousness
,
unevenness
,
ungodliness
,
ungoodness
,
ungracefulness
,
unmorality
,
unperfectedness
,
unpureness
,
unrefinement
,
unrighteousness
,
unsaintliness
,
unseemliness
,
unsoundness
,
untidiness
,
unvirtuousness
,
unwieldiness
,
vice
,
viciousness
,
vileness
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
,
want
,
wantonness
,
waywardness
,
weed
,
wickedness
,
wrongdoing
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
coarseness
collapse
the quality of lacking taste and refinement
looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
related words >
Adam
,
Gothicism
,
animalism
,
animality
,
bad manners
,
bad taste
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
baseness
,
beastliness
,
bestiality
,
bodily size
,
body
,
bombasticness
,
brutality
,
brutishness
,
bulk
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
caddishness
,
callowness
,
carnal nature
,
carnal-mindedness
,
carnality
,
clumsiness
,
coarse-grainedness
,
commonness
,
corpulence
,
cracked voice
,
crassness
,
crudeness
,
crudity
,
cumbrousness
,
depth
,
discord
,
discourteousness
,
discourtesy
,
distance through
,
dryness
,
dysphemism
,
earthiness
,
fallen nature
,
fallen state
,
fatness
,
flesh
,
fleshliness
,
fourth-rateness
,
frankness
,
gaudiness
,
gracelessness
,
graininess
,
granularity
,
granulation
,
greenness
,
grittiness
,
gross behavior
,
grossness
,
gruffness
,
gutturalism
,
gutturality
,
gutturalness
,
hardness
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
hoarseness
,
humbleness
,
huskiness
,
ill breeding
,
ill manners
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
immatureness
,
immaturity
,
impoliteness
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
incivility
,
inconcinnity
,
inconsiderateness
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
infelicity
,
inferiority
,
inferiorness
,
insensitivity
,
inurbanity
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
lapsed state
,
leadenness
,
loudness
,
loutishness
,
lowliness
,
mannerlessness
,
mass
,
materialism
,
meanness
,
meretriciousness
,
nondevelopment
,
nonspirituality
,
obscenity
,
offensiveness
,
oversimplicity
,
oversimplification
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
poorness
,
postlapsarian state
,
raciness
,
rankness
,
raspiness
,
raucity
,
rawness
,
reductionism
,
ribaldry
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
saltiness
,
scrapiness
,
scratchiness
,
second-rateness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
simplism
,
slipshod construction
,
spiciness
,
stertorousness
,
stiltedness
,
swinishness
,
tactlessness
,
tastelessness
,
the Old Adam
,
the beast
,
the flesh
,
the offending Adam
,
the rough
,
the third dimension
,
thickness
,
third-rateness
,
throatiness
,
turgidity
,
ugliness
,
uncourtliness
,
uncouthness
,
uncultivation
,
undevelopment
,
uneuphoniousness
,
unfinish
,
unfinishedness
,
unfledgedness
,
ungallantness
,
ungentlemanliness
,
ungracefulness
,
ungraciousness
,
unmannerliness
,
unpoliteness
,
unrefinement
,
unripeness
,
unseemliness
,
unsolicitousness
,
unspirituality
,
unwieldiness
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
indiscretion
collapse
a petty misdeed
the trait of being injudicious
related words >
absurdity
,
act of folly
,
atrocity
,
audacity
,
babbling
,
betrayal
,
blabbering
,
blabbing
,
bloomer
,
blunder
,
boldness
,
boner
,
botch
,
brashness
,
brass
,
brazen boldness
,
breach
,
bungle
,
callowness
,
carelessness
,
casualness
,
cheek
,
childishness
,
chutzpah
,
communication leak
,
crime
,
crime against humanity
,
crudity of intellect
,
dead giveaway
,
deadly sin
,
delinquency
,
dereliction
,
divulgation
,
divulgement
,
divulgence
,
divulging
,
dumb trick
,
enormity
,
error
,
evil
,
evulgation
,
failure
,
fault
,
faux pas
,
felony
,
folly
,
foolhardiness
,
foolishness
,
gaffe
,
gall
,
genocide
,
giveaway
,
guilty act
,
haste
,
hastiness
,
heavy sin
,
heedlessness
,
heroics
,
hubris
,
immaturity
,
impetuosity
,
impetuousness
,
impropriety
,
improvidence
,
imprudence
,
impudence
,
impulsiveness
,
inadvisability
,
inappropriateness
,
inattention
,
inconsideration
,
indecency
,
indecorousness
,
indecorum
,
indelicacy
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscriminateness
,
indiscrimination
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
inexpedience
,
inexpiable sin
,
iniquity
,
injudiciousness
,
injury
,
injustice
,
insensibility
,
insensitivity
,
insolence
,
irrationality
,
lack of feeling
,
lack of refinement
,
lapse
,
leak
,
letting out
,
malefaction
,
malfeasance
,
malum
,
minor wrong
,
misdeed
,
misdemeanor
,
misfeasance
,
misstep
,
mistake
,
mortal sin
,
naivety
,
nonfeasance
,
obvious clue
,
offense
,
omission
,
outrage
,
overboldness
,
overcarelessness
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweeningness
,
peccadillo
,
peccancy
,
pompousness
,
promiscuity
,
promiscuousness
,
puerility
,
rashness
,
reasonlessness
,
recklessness
,
senselessness
,
sin
,
sin of commission
,
sin of omission
,
sinful act
,
slip
,
solecism
,
sottise
,
stuffiness
,
stupid thing
,
stupidity
,
syncretism
,
tactlessness
,
telltale
,
telltale sign
,
temerariousness
,
temerity
,
thoughtlessness
,
tort
,
transgression
,
trespass
,
trip
,
unchariness
,
unchastity
,
uncriticalness
,
undiscriminatingness
,
undiscriminativeness
,
unfastidiousness
,
unintelligence
,
unmeticulousness
,
unparticularness
,
unpreciseness
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unseemliness
,
unselectiveness
,
unsensibleness
,
unsoundness
,
untactfulness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
unutterable sin
,
unwariness
,
unwisdom
,
unwise step
,
unwiseness
,
unwitting disclosure
,
venial sin
,
witlessness
,
wrong
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