1. (n.) Making an unnecessary show or pretentious display to impress others\; -- usually in a detractive sense.

2. (n.) A show or spectacle.

Barnumism acting affectation appearance arabesque arrantness attitudinizing baroque baroqueness bedizenment big talk blatancy bluff bluffing boldness cheating chinoiserie color coloring conspicuousness convolution deception delusion demonstration disguise display dissemblance dissembling dissimulation elaborateness elegance enactment exhibit exhibition exhibitionism exposition exposure facade face fakery faking false air false front false show falsity fanciness feigning feint fineness flagrance flagrancy flamboyance flashiness flatulence flatulency flaunting floridity floridness flourish floweriness four-flushing fraud front fulsomeness garishness gaudiness gilt gloss grandiloquence grandioseness grandiosity high relief high-flown diction humbug humbuggery imposture inflatedness inflation lexiphanicism loftiness luridness luxuriance luxuriousness magniloquence masquerade mere rhetoric meretriciousness moresque noticeability notoriety notoriousness obtrusiveness opening orotundity ostentatious complexity outstandingness outward show overelaborateness overelegance overornamentation parade performance platitudinous ponderosity playacting polysyllabic profundity pomposity pompous prolixity pompousness pontification pose posing posture presentation presentment pretense pretension pretentiousness pretext production projection prominence pronouncedness prose run mad representation retrospective rhetoric rhetoricalness richness rococo salience saliency seeming semblance sensationalism sententiousness sham show showiness showing simulacrum simulation speciousness stiltedness strikingness strong relief swelling utterance swollen phrase swollenness tall talk tortuosity tortuousness tumidity tumidness turgescence turgidity unfolding unfoldment unveiling varnish varnishing day vernissage window dressing