- 1裝腔作勢、自命不凡、做作
Pretentiousness is the quality of being — the show of being more important, intelligent, or high-class than you are.
You can talk about the pretentiousness of a speech, a building, a wine list, a whole scene. It names the air around the thing: the trying-too-hard, the false shine.
Though actually, this noun is a little heavier and more formal than the adjective. In speech, people often skip it and just say “it’s so ” or “what an act.” Pretentiousness belongs more to essays, reviews, and complaints written down. It still is not rare; you will meet it.
It is always a criticism. There is no friendly way to admire someone’s pretentiousness, unless you are being funny on purpose.
組成From pretentious + -ness. The ending -ness (from Old English) turns the adjective into a noun that names the quality.
同家族的字
- pretentiousthe adjective this noun is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pretentiousnessnoun
- 1
The quality of being pretentious.
- Near-synonyms: affectation, affectedness, false pretense, pretending
- Possibly her sheer pretentiousness, or that she knew everything about everything, or maybe because she treated her reporters like underoxygenated platypies.
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