ostentation – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
ostentation
n.
ambitious demonstration; showiness; garishness
Conspicuous consumption
Conspicuous consumption is the spending of money on and the acquiring of
luxury goods and services to publicly display economic power — of the income or of the accumulated wealth of the buyer. Sociologically, to the conspicuous consumer, such a public display of
discretionary economic power is a means either of attaining or of maintaining a given
social status.
ostentation
Noun
1. a showy outward display
(synonym) fanfare
(hypernym) display
(hyponym) bravado, bluster
(derivation) flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank
2. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
(synonym) ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, inflation
(hypernym) inelegance
3. pretentious or showy or vulgar display
(hypernym) pretentiousness, pretension
(derivation) flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank
ostentation
nf.
ostentation, ambitious demonstration, showiness
Ostentation
(n.)
The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
(n.)
A show or spectacle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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