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Definitions of ostentation in various dictionaries:
noun - a gaudy outward display
noun - lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
noun - pretentious or showy or vulgar display
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| The pretentious or showy display of wealth and luxury, designed to impress. |
| the pretentious or showy display of wealth and luxury, designed to impress. |
| Pretentious display meant to impress others boastful showiness. |
| Archaic The act or an instance of showing an exhibition. |
| the quality of being ostentatious: |
| a show of wealth, possessions, or power intended to attract admiration or notice |
| pretentious or showy or vulgar display |
| lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity |
| a showy outward display |
| Ostentation might refer to |
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| Conspicuous consumption is the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury goods and services to publicly display economic powerof the income or of the accumulated wealth of the buyer. To the conspicuous consumer, such a public display of discretionary economic power is a means of either attaining or maintaining a given social status.The development of Thorstein Veblen's sociology of conspicuous consumption produced the term invidious consumption, the ostentatious consumption of goods that is meant to provoke the envy of other people; and the term conspicuous compassion, the deliberate use of charitable donations of money in order to enhance the social prestige of the donor, with a display of superior socio-economic status. |
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