grandioseness
Pompous impressive quality
Grandioseness is the quality of being grandiose—impressive in scale, ambitious in scope, or pretentiously magnificent.
The word carries a whiff of excess or self-importance: The grandioseness of his plans far exceeded his budget.
Grandiosity is the more common noun form.
Ostentatious display quality
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
- flamboyanceShowy, confident style
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- pageantryElaborate ceremonial display
spectacle · display · flourish · fanfare · pomp · ceremony · ornateness · gilt
Impressive, striking beauty
- majestyImpressive supreme dignity
- gloryExalted honor and praise
- sublimityExalted, awe-inspiring quality
- resplendenceImpressive, dazzling brilliance
sumptuousness · stateliness · regality · impressiveness · augustness · nobility · loftiness · brilliance
Artificial behavior for effect
- pomposityExaggerated sense of importance
- pretentiousnessShowy self-importance
- boastfulnessExcessive pride in oneself
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
self-importance · arrogance · snobbery · airs · posturing · vanity · haughtiness · inflation
showiness
Ostentatious display quality
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
- flamboyanceShowy, confident style
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
pageantry · spectacle · display · flourish · fanfare · pomp · ceremony · ornateness · gilt · excess
splendor
Impressive, striking beauty
- majestyImpressive supreme dignity
- gloryExalted honor and praise
- sublimityExalted, awe-inspiring quality
resplendence · sumptuousness · stateliness · regality · impressiveness · augustness · nobility · loftiness · brilliance · radiance
affectation
Artificial behavior for effect
- pomposityExaggerated sense of importance
- pretentiousnessShowy self-importance
- boastfulnessExcessive pride in oneself
conceit · self-importance · arrogance · snobbery · airs · posturing · vanity · haughtiness · inflation · egotism
immensity
Limitless extent or magnitude
expansiveness · monumentality · colossal · sweeping · epic · towering · ambitious · sprawling · ambitious · panoramic
grandiosenesssmallness
Minimal physical extent
modestness · insignificance · minuteness · pettiness · littleness
grandiosenessmodesty
Absence of vanity
humility · humbleness · self-effacement · unpretentiousness · meekness
grandiosenesssimplicity
Lack of complexity
plainness · understatement · austerity · restraint · minimalism
grand, magnificent, grandeur, grandiose, magnificence, grandest, aggrandize, grandiloquent, grander