Synonym: fanfare, flash, inflation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness. Similar words: ostentatious, ostentatiously, orientation, indentation, lamentation, proportional representation, presentation, fragmentation. Meaning: [‚ɑsten'teɪʃn /‚ɒs-] 
n. 1. a gaudy outward display 2. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity 3. pretentious or showy or vulgar display.
n. 1. a gaudy outward display 2. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity 3. pretentious or showy or vulgar display. 
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1 Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation. 
2 Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
3 Her lifestyle was remarkably free from ostentation.
4 I don't like the ostentation of their expensive life - style.
5 Her luxurious lifestyle and personal ostentation were both hated and envied.
6 Therefore, ostentation continues to have a purpose.
7 The hospitality of luxury and the liberality of ostentation had ruined many.
8 Inside the church, the degree of elaboration and ostentation of both architecture and fittings indicates status and wealth in the community.
9 Dusseldorf remains the capital of mindless extravagance; ostentation rules the KO.
10 With the decline of ostentation, or its vulgarization, wealth and hence inequality were no longer flagrantly advertised.
11 His extravagance and ostentation were balanced by a natural dignity and reserve.
12 And there is the look: richness without ostentation and flash.
13 The statue had beauty without ostentation.
14 Choose a life of actlorl, not one of ostentation.
15 I thought that one is exaggerates; second, wins ostentation.
16 Choose a life of action, none one of ostentation.
17 Chose a life of action,(www.Sentencedict.com) not one of ostentation.
18 Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.
19 The statue has beauty without ostentation.
20 Exhibiting no pretensions, boastfulness, or ostentation; modest.
21 Forsake your greed, abandon your appetites of ostentation.
22 They lived meanly and without ostentation.
23 Consumers are abandoning the excess and ostentation of the 1980s.
24 Do you reject his ostentation and glories in this world?
25 Ostentation and revelry were ceased, for the sake of separation.
26 On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.
27 The house was spacious but without any trace of ostentation.
28 It was a time not only of heroic inequality but of incredible ostentation.
29 Soloist Annette Servadei played beautifully with an involvement entirely free from any kind of ostentation.
30 However, a really heavy paper does not impress and is often seen more as ostentation than as a sign of quality.
More similar words: ostentatious, ostentatiously, orientation, indentation, lamentation, proportional representation, presentation, fragmentation, argumentation, implementation, representation, disorientation, misrepresentation, market segmentation, tentative, tentatively, incantation, plantation, abstention, distention, confrontation, confrontational, argumentative, representative, station, mutation, prostration, denotation, agitation, annotation.