Definition for Pompousness:

• The state of being pompous.

Synonyms for Pompousness:

• n.

  •
  • grandiosity,
  • plain.
  •arrogance (noun)
  • high handednesses,
  • pre tensions,
  • imperiousnesses,
  • pre-tension,
  • scornfulnesses,
  • disdainfulnesses,
  • contemptuousnesses,
  • high-handednesses,
  • smugnesses,
  • selflove,
  • highhandednesses,
  • pre tension,
  • overbearances,
  • high handedness,
  • conceitednesses,
  • self love,
  • pre-tensions.
  •grandioseness (noun)
  • dis guises,
  • dis-guises,
  • dis-guise,
  • dis guise.
  •hauteur (noun)
  • snobbishnesses.
  •hubris (noun)
  • cockinesses.
  •ostentation (noun)
  • garishness,
  • showiness,
  • grandstand play,
  • flamboyance,
  • window-dressing.
  •ostentatiousness (noun)
  • ostentatiousness.
  •pomposity (noun)
  • pomposity.
  •pompousness (noun)
  • pretentiousness,
  • splashiness,
  • inflation.
  •pretentiousness (noun)
  • front,
  • hypocrisy,
  • show,
  • big talk,
  • false front,
  • affectation,
  • vaingloriousness,
  • phony,
  • charade,
  • vainglory,
  • put-on,
  • vanity,
  • fake,
  • immodesty,
  • pretension,
  • splash,
  • showoff,
  • snobbery,
  • conceit,
  • immodesties,
  • disguise.
  •self-importance (noun)
  • egoisms.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • grandioseness.

Antonyms for Pompousness:

• n.

  • pretentiousness
    humility, modesty, reality, honesty, truth.
  • Other antonyms:
    passivity, humbleness, timidity, unpretentiousness, demureness, submissiveness, mousiness, diffidence, shyness, passiveness, altruism, retirement, self-doubt, unselfishness, self-distrust, unobtrusiveness, retiringness, timidness, shrinking, reserve, bashfulness, meekness, quietness, self-disgust, unassumingness, reservedness.

Pompousness Sentence Examples:

• Their absurdities, pompousness, banalities, hypocricies took grotesque outline in his words.

• " He reposes entire confidence in me," said Beaumaroy, with a touch of assumed pompousness.