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pretentiousness

pretentiousness noun: the quality of being pretentious.

Noun

pretentiousness (countable and uncountable, plural pretentiousnesses)

  1. The quality of being pretentious.
    • Near-synonyms: affectation, affectedness, false pretense, pretending
    • Possibly her sheer pretentiousness, or that she knew everything about everything, or maybe because she treated her reporters like underoxygenated platypies.2015, Cathy Lubenski, Trashy Chic

pretentiousness meaning in Telugu and Kannada

pretentiousness in Telugu

pretentiousness
టంకుతనము ṭaṅkutanamu

pretentiousness in Kannada

pretentiousness; ostentation; pomp
ವೈಭವ vaibhava

Synonyms of pretentiousness

Forms of pretentiousness

pluralpretentiousnesses

Origin of pretentiousness

From pretentious + -ness.

Questions about pretentiousness

What does pretentiousness mean?
Pretentiousness means the quality of being pretentious.
What is pretentiousness in Telugu?
Pretentiousness in Telugu is టంకుతనము (ṭaṅkutanamu). See Pretentiousness meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is pretentiousness?
Pretentiousness is a noun.
What is the plural of pretentiousness?
The plural of pretentiousness is pretentiousnesses.

Words near pretentiousness in the dictionary

  1. pretention
  2. pretentions
  3. pretentiosity
  4. pretentious
  5. pretentiously
  6. pretentiousness
  7. pretentiousnesses
  8. pretenure
  9. preter-
  10. preter-human
  11. pretercanine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pretentiousness (page history and authors); టంకుతనము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ವೈಭವ (Kannada) (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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