ostentatiousness

Other forms of ostentatiousness

plural

ostentatiousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ostentatiousness

What does ostentatiousness mean?

ostentatiousness means "lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity".

How many syllables are in ostentatiousness?

ostentatiousness has 6 syllables and divides as o-sten-ta-ti-ou-sness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ostentatiousness?

Close synonyms include ostentation, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ostentatiousness a common word?

ostentatiousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.