OSTENTATION Synonyms

• cheap or pretentious or vain display

• ceremonial elegance and splendor

• extravagant elaborateness

• a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

• vain and empty boasting

• something intended to communicate a particular impression

• something shown to the public

• a visual representation of something

• behavior that makes your feelings public

• exhibiting openly in public view

• an electronic device that represents information in visual form

• to show, make visible or apparent

• attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals

• extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself

• the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals

• the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth

• the trait of spending extravagantly

• the activity of excessive spending

• extravagant elaborateness

• tasteless showiness

• high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

• high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

• a false or unsupportable quality

• the advancing of a claim

• the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

• an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

• an exaggerated opinion of your own importance

• outspoken conceit

• feelings of excessive pride

• the quality of being valueless or futile

• the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride

• low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup

• lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

• speaking of yourself in superlatives

• a gaudy outward display

• (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments

• a sudden intense burst of radiant energy

• a momentary brightness

• a short vivid experience

• a sudden brilliant understanding

• a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

• a gaudy outward display

• a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate

• a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story

• a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification

• a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph

• tastelessly showy

• gleam or glow intermittently

• appear briefly

• display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

• make known or cause to appear with great speed

• run or move very quickly or hastily

• expose or show briefly

• protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal

• emit a brief burst of light