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grandiosity
[ gran-dee-os-i-tee ]
noun
- the quality of seeming impressive or important in an artificial or deliberately pompous way; pretentiousness:
These are mere bogus revolutionaries, high on the sound of their own voices and the silly grandiosity of their claims.
- the quality of actually being imposing or impressive:
Through the photographer's eyes these sprawling, well-known cities become worlds of extreme beauty, elegance, and grandiosity.
- the quality of being more complicated or elaborate than necessary:
Hockey’s a great sport: gentlemanly and understated, with no fuss or grandiosity.
- Psychiatry. an exaggerated belief in one’s own importance, sometimes reaching delusional proportions, as a symptom of a mental illness such as manic disorder:
Paranoiacs tend to carry a bit of guilt with their grandiosity—a sense of some great transgression that has made them a magnet for universal hostility.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of grandiosity1
Example Sentences
These politicians play to jaded electorates and captive audiences who reward grandiosity and xenophobia because partisanship fills the void left by an absence of genuine national community.
He extensively quotes both men's social media posts to "get a full sense of the madness," arguing they're both being consumed by their tendencies "to grandiosity, vindictiveness and paranoia."
Now Trump is celebrating what he feels is a mandate, dominated as he is by his own grandiosity.
Presented as compelling theater, they brought in-depth insight into our often simplistic attempts to understand the Russian mind, with its complex aspirations, fears and insecurity that can lead to greatness, grandiosity or outright malevolence.
Trump's grandiosity and need for adoration and attention is as great as his vulnerability which is why he hates and wants to destroy anyone who dares to disagree with him or otherwise opposes him.
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