pretentiousness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pretentious +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

pretentiousness (countable and uncountable, plural pretentiousnesses)

  1. The quality of being pretentious.
    • 2015, Cathy Lubenski, Trashy Chic:
      Possibly her sheer pretentiousness, or that she knew everything about everything, or maybe because she treated her reporters like underoxygenated platypies.

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