Associations to the word «Pretentiousness»
Wiktionary
PRETENTIOUSNESS, noun. The quality of being pretentious.
Dictionary definition
PRETENTIOUSNESS, noun. Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
PRETENTIOUSNESS, noun. The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth).
Wise words
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.