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Antonyms for pompousness

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pom-pos-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : pɒmˈpɒs ɪ ti


Definition of pompousness

Origin :
  • early 15c., "pomp, solemnity," from Medieval Latin pompositas, from Late Latin pomposus "stately, pompous" (see pompous). The sense of "ostentatious display" is from 1610s; earlier in French pomposité.
  • noun pretentiousness
Example sentences :
  • None of the deacon's pompousness was abated as he entered the house and the room.
  • Extract from : « The Cash Boy » by Horatio Alger Jr.
  • A great landowner was remarkable for the pompousness of his manner.
  • Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1906 » by Various
  • He had a pompousness or formal plenitude in his conversation, which I did not dislike.
  • Extract from : « Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 » by Boswell
  • Three things that characterise every haughty person: pompousness, elegance, (display of) wealth.
  • Extract from : « The Triads of Ireland » by Kuno Meyer
  • It has no Pindaric involution, no Æschylean pompousness, no studied Sophoclean subtlety, no Euripidean concetti.
  • Extract from : « Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol II of 2) » by John Addington Symonds
  • He had cast off his pompousness and vanity, and was known to favor war to the bitter end.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
  • Mr. Warren looked more sympathetic than ever, and that was just as trying to bear as the pompousness of Doctor Newington.
  • Extract from : « The Heart of a Woman » by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
  • In his straight-forward, confiding manner there was no suggestion of his old sharpness and pompousness.
  • Extract from : « The Great Quest » by Charles Boardman Hawes
  • There was no room for pedantry, for the ostentatious display of learning, for pompousness, for affectation.
  • Extract from : « History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) » by John Richard Green
  • The externality, the pompousness of intention, the theatrical postures, was part of the romantic constitution.
  • Extract from : « Musical Portraits » by Paul Rosenfeld

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