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
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
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free creation.