grandiosity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

grandiosity
    n 1: high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation;
         "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of
         language" [syn: {grandiosity}, {magniloquence},
         {ornateness}, {grandiloquence}, {rhetoric}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Grandiosity \Gran"di*os"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. grandiosit['e], It.
   grandiosit[`a].]
   The state or quality of being grandiose,
   [1913 Webster]

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