grandiosity

  • 1grandiosity — (n.) 1814, from Fr. grandiose (see GRANDIOSE (Cf. grandiose)) + ITY (Cf. ity). The author now and then makes a word for his own use, as complicate, for complicated; and, still less fortunately grandiosity (p. 343). [review of Joseph Forsyth s… …

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  • 2Grandiosity — Gran di*os i*ty, n. [Cf. F. grandiosit[ e], It. grandiosit[ a].] The state or quality of being grandiose, [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 3grandiosity — index bombast, pretense (ostentation), rhetoric (insincere language) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 4grandiosity — grandiose ► ADJECTIVE 1) impressive or magnificent, especially pretentiously so. 2) conceived on a very ambitious scale. DERIVATIVES grandiosely adverb grandiosity noun. ORIGIN Italian grandioso, from grande grand …

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  • 5grandiosity — noun high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation the grandiosity of his prose an excessive ornateness of language • Syn: ↑magniloquence, ↑ornateness, ↑grandiloquence, ↑rhetoric • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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  • 6grandiosity — noun see grandiose …

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  • 7grandiosity — See grandiosely. * * * …

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  • 8grandiosity — noun The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious) …

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  • 9grandiosity — gran·di·os·i·ty (gran″de osґĭ te) the condition of being grandiose; an exaggerated belief of one s importance or identity …

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  • 10grandiosity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Something meriting the highest praise or regard: glory, grandeur, grandness, greatness, majesty, splendor. See PRAISE. 2. Boastful self importance or display: grandioseness, ostentation, pomposity, pompousness,… …

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