Associations to the word «Pretentiousness»

Wiktionary

PRETENTIOUSNESS, noun. The quality of being pretentious.

Dictionary definition

PRETENTIOUSNESS, noun. Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
PRETENTIOUSNESS, noun. The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth).

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery