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: o-sten-ta-ti-ou-sness. The stress falls on "ti".

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.