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pomp collapse: ceremonial elegance and splendor; "entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses"

ceremonial collapse: marked by pomp or ceremony or formality; "a ceremonial occasion"; "ceremonial garb"

ceremony collapse: any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony"; the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony"; a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"

gravity collapse: a solemn and dignified feeling; (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface; "the more remote the body the less the gravity"; "the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them"; "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"--Albert Einstein

stiffness collapse: firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"; the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"; the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

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"

infelicity collapse: inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)

ritual collapse: stereotyped behavior; any customary observance or practice; the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies; of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals; "a ritual dance of Haiti"; "sedate little colonial tribe with its ritual tea parties"- Nadine Gordimer; of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals; "ritual killing"

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

impurity collapse: the condition of being impure; worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water"

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

rhetoric collapse: study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking); using language effectively to please or persuade

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

dignity collapse: the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect; "it was beneath his dignity to cheat"; "showed his true dignity when under pressure"; formality in bearing and appearance; "he behaved with great dignity"; high office or rank or station; "he respected the dignity of the emissaries"

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