pretentiousness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
pretentious + -ness
Noun[edit]
pretentiousness (countable and uncountable, plural pretentiousnesses)
- 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.