magniloquence
41ostentation — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, acting, affectation, appearance, arabesque, arrantness, attitudinizing, baroque, baroqueness, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, bluff, bluffing, boldness, cheating, chinoiserie, color, coloring,… …
42pomposity — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, bedizenment, belief, big talk, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, convolution,… …
43pretension — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, ambitions, ambitiousness, apology, appearance, appurtenance, artificiality, aspiration, attitudinizing, authority, bedizenment, big talk,… …
44raving — Synonyms and related words: Dionysiac, abandoned, afebrile delirium, amok, anarchic, angry, babble, babbling, bacchic, balderdash, beaming, bellowing, berserk, blooming, bluster, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bombast, brainstorm,… …
45rhetoric — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, articulateness, bedizenment, big talk, bluster, bombast, choice of words, command of language, command of words, composition, convolution, debating, declamation, demagogism, dialect, diction,… …
46sensationalism — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, Thespian art, affectation, aggrandizement, amateur theatricals, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, blood and thunder, blowing up, brazenness, burlesque, caricature, colorfulness,… …
47boasting — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Bragging speech Nouns 1. boasting, boast, vaunt[ing], puff, fanfaronade, bluster, gasconade, braggadocio, bravado, swagger, exultation, jactation; gloating, exultation; buncombe (See absurdity); bounce… …
48bombast — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. boasting, braggadocio, grandiloquence, exaggeration. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. grandiloquence, rant, fustian, pomposity; see nonsense 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. grandiloquence, rodomontade,… …
49claptrap — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. nonsense (See unmeaningness). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. empty talk, drivel, bombast, bunk; see nonsense 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. [KLAP TRAP] pretentious writing or talk… …
50rant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. rage, rave, scold, nag; harangue. See excitability, speech. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. bombast, tirade, raving, rhetoric; see nonsense 1 . v. Syn. rave, fume, rail, harangue; see bluster , rage 1 .… …