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grandiosity
English
Etymology
grandiose +? -ity
Noun
grandiosity (countable and uncountable, plural grandiosities)
- The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious).
- 1973, Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Part Three, Chapter 9, pp.202-3,
- […] the narcissistic leader does not use his narcissistic charisma only as a means for political success; he needs success and applause for the sake of his own mental equilibrium. The idea of his greatness and infallibility is essentially based on his narcissistic grandiosity, not on his real achievements as a human being.
- 1973, Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Part Three, Chapter 9, pp.202-3,
Translations
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bombast
English
Etymology
From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?mbæst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?mbæst/
- Hyphenation: bom?bast
Noun
bombast (countable and uncountable, plural bombasts)
- (archaic) Cotton, or cotton wool.
- Synonym: fustian
- (archaic) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
- (figuratively) High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
- Synonyms: aureation, (obsolete) bombard phrase, fustian, grandiloquence, purple prose
Derived terms
- bombastic
- bombastical
- bombastically
- bombastry
Translations
Verb
bombast (third-person singular simple present bombasts, present participle bombasting, simple past and past participle bombasted)
- To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
- To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
Translations
Adjective
bombast (comparative more bombast, superlative most bombast)
- Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
- Synonyms: aureate, highfalutin
References
Further reading
- fustian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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