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. 31 English : Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
32 Lavishment , ostentation and extravagance, banquet, all these are to fulfill personal selfish desire, power and battle.
33 I was floored by a fairly shabby-looking old wooden casket, displayed without ostentation; according to the label, it contained the remains of Henry V.
34 She had a small property, which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community.
35 He ignored the public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery.
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.