Words and phrases that have a meaning related to pretentiousness: (118 results)
Antonyms:
unpretentiousness
Often used in the same context:
pretension, pomposity, snootiness, snobbery, didacticism, pompousness, affectation, snobbism, elitism, smugness, grandiloquence, snobbishness, superficiality, trashiness, intellectualism, sentimentality, triteness, knowingness, facetiousness, blandness, staginess, haughtiness, sappiness, profundity, dilettantism, artifice, cheesiness, misanthropy, condescension, conventionality, superciliousness, stodginess, mawkishness, vapidity, silliness, stuffiness, daftness, sentimentalism, bombast, pedantry, highbrow, glibness, preciousness, crassness, outlandishness, cynicism, theatricality, earnestness, weirdness, tastelessness, unoriginality, irreverence, banality, philistinism, artlessness, sanctimony, flippancy, ponderousness, crudeness, subtlety, suavity, solipsism, whimsy, priggishness, artificiality, snob, wryness, showiness, vacuousness, sensibility, eccentricity, archness, egotism, sleaziness, conceit, lugubriousness, snottiness, hipness, poeticism, corniness, anglophilia, clownishness, prettiness, frivolity, explicitness, political incorrectness, ambitiousness, implausibility, fustiness, insouciance, schmaltz, dullness, brassiness, middlebrow, inscrutability, puerility, inanity, decadence, sanctimoniousness, insipidness, ingenuousness, narcissism, pretensions, pretentions, fastidiousness, squeamishness, verbosity, ostentation, pretense, prudery, affectations, decorum, respectability
More general:
inelegance, unnaturalness
Synonyms:
Also try:ostentatiousness, splashiness
— Adjectives for pretentiousness: intellectual, such, social, literary, certain, own, moral, empty, human, academic, mere, more...
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