ostentation
/ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
The pretentious or showy display of wealth and luxury, designed to impress: the office was spacious, but without any trace of ostentation...
- He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
- After all, ostentation and luxury do not translate into a truly modern city.
- By the beginning of the twentieth century the representative symbols of luxury and ostentation had come full circle.
Synonyms
showiness, show, showing off, ostentatiousness;
pretentiousness, pretension, vulgarity, conspicuousness, obtrusiveness, display, flamboyance, gaudiness, garishness, tinsel, brashness, loudness, extravagance, ornateness, theatricality, kitschness, affectation, bad taste, tastelessness, self-advertisement, exhibitionism, flaunting
informal flashiness, flash, flashness, glitz, glitziness, ritziness, swankiness, swank, splashiness
Origin
Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin ostentatio(n-), from the verb ostentare, frequentative of ostendere 'stretch out to view'.
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