pomposity
pomposity 英 [pɒm'pɒsətɪ] 美 [pɑmˈpɑsətɪ]
n. 自大；炫耀；浮夸
名词复数:pomposities
- The noun pomposity means super-sized self-confidence. A person who thinks he or she is better than every else suffers from pomposity — and everyone in that person's life suffers, too.
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- n. 自大；炫耀；浮夸
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1. The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability.
经济学人将自己视为特权、浮夸和预言家的敌人。
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2. He has a deep voice and a thick accent, which people sometimes confuse with pomposity.
他声音低沉，而且有很重的口音。 这让人们有时候误以为这是傲慢。
- pomposity (n.) early 15c., "pomp, solemnity," from Medieval Latin pompositas, from Late Latin pomposus "stately, pompous" (see pompous). The sense of "ostentatious display" is from 1610s; earlier in French pomposité.
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