grandiosity

gran·di·ose

G0224800 (grăn′dē-ōs′, grăn′dē-ōs′)adj.1. Characterized by greatness of scope or intent; grand: a grandiose plan to develop the city's waterfront.2. Characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous: "It's important ... for judges not to be rattled by political attacks into grandiose assertions of judicial supremacy" (Jeffrey Rosen).

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[French, from Italian grandioso, from grande, great, from Latin grandis.]

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gran′di·ose′ly adv.gran′di·os′i·ty (-ŏs′ĭ-tē) n.

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grandiosity - high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"grandiloquence, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoricflourish - a display of ornamental speech or languageexpressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"blah, bombast, claptrap, fustian, rant - pompous or pretentious talk or writing

grandiosity

noun1. Something meriting the highest praise or regard:glory, grandeur, grandness, greatness, majesty, splendor.2. Boastful self-importance or display:grandioseness, ostentation, pomposity, pompousness, pretension, pretentiousness.

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