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pomposity

pomposity noun: the quality of being pompous; self-importance.

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.
    • In death Sir Felix changed from a smug-scented pomposity with a Stalinist grip on Arts Council money into, oh, Britain’s best-loved arts guru since the last one.2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 151

pomposity meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

pomposity in Tamil

இடம்பம், ஆடம்பரம், பந்தா, படோடோபம், இடாம்பீகம், பகட்டுத்தனம்

pomposity in Bengali

আড়ম্বরপূর্ণ ভাব, জাঁকজমকপূর্ণ আচরণ

pomposity in Malayalam

പൊള്ളയായ, ഗർവ്വ്

pomposity in Kannada

ಥಳಕುಬಳಕು, ಆಟಾಟೋಪ, ಆಡಂಬರ, ಡೌಲು

Synonyms of pomposity

Forms of pomposity

pluralpomposities

Origin of pomposity

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

Questions about pomposity

What does pomposity mean?
Pomposity means the quality of being pompous; self-importance.
What is pomposity in Tamil?
Pomposity in Tamil is இடம்பம், ஆடம்பரம், பந்தா. See Pomposity meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pomposity?
Pomposity is a noun.
What is the plural of pomposity?
The plural of pomposity is pomposities.

Words near pomposity in the dictionary

  1. Pomponios
  2. pompons
  3. pompoon
  4. pompoons
  5. pomposities
  6. pomposity
  7. pomposo
  8. pomposos
  9. pompous
  10. pompously
  11. pompousness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pomposity (page history and authors); pomposity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pomposity (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pomposity (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pomposity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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