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ostentation
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ostentation
n.
ambitious demonstration; showiness; garishness
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Conspicuous consumption
Conspicuous consumption is the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury goods and services to publicly display economic power — of the income or of the accumulated wealth of the buyer. Sociologically, to the conspicuous consumer, such a public display of discretionary economic power is a means either of attaining or of maintaining a given social status.
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ostentation
Noun
1. a showy outward display
(synonym) fanfare
(hypernym) display
(hyponym) bravado, bluster
(derivation) flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank
2. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
(synonym) ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, inflation
(hypernym) inelegance
3. pretentious or showy or vulgar display
(hypernym) pretentiousness, pretension
(derivation) flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank
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ostentation
nf.
ostentation, ambitious demonstration, showiness
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Ostentation
(n.)
The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
(n.)
A show or spectacle.
A show or spectacle.
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