pomposity

English

Etymology

From Middle English pomposite (“solemnity”), from Latin pompōsitās.[1] By surface analysis, pomp +‎ -osity.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

pomposity (plural pomposities)

  1. The quality of being pompous; self-importance.
    With their super-formal tone and heavy use of jargon, legal documents are renowned for their pomposity.

Synonyms

Translations

References

  1. ^ “pomposity, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.