(n.) Pretentiousness; exaggerated self-esteem or dignity\.

Barnumism affectation arrogance assurance assuredness bedizenment belief big talk buckram ceremonial ceremoniousness ceremony certitude cocksureness confidence confidentness conviction convolution courage dignity extrinsicality faith flashiness flatulence flatulency form formality formalization fulsomeness garishness gaudiness grandiloquence grandioseness grandiosity gravity high-flown diction hubris impersonality inflatedness inflation lexiphanicism loftiness luridness magniloquence mere rhetoric meretriciousness orotundity ostentation ostentatious complexity overconfidence oversureness overweening overweeningness platitudinous ponderosity poise polysyllabic profundity pomp pompous prolixity pompousness pontificality pontification positiveness pretension pretentiousness pride primness prose run mad rhetoric rhetoricalness rigidness ritual rituality security self-assurance self-confidence self-importance self-reliance sensationalism sententiousness settled belief showiness solemnity starchiness stiffness stiltedness stuffiness stylization subjective certainty sureness surety swelling utterance swollen phrase swollenness tall talk tortuosity tortuousness trust tumidity tumidness turgescence turgidity weight