pomposity

Other forms of pomposity

plural

pomposities·

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 pomposity

What does pomposity mean?

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

How many syllables are in pomposity?

pomposity has 4 syllables: pom-po-si-ty. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˌpɑmˈpɑsɪti/.

What is another word for pomposity?

Close synonyms include ostentation, ostentatiousness, 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 pomposity a common word?

pomposity 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.