Noun ostentation has 3 senses
  1. ostentation, fanfare - a showy outward display
    --1 is a kind of display
    --1 has particulars:
     bravado, bluster; exhibitionism; ritz; splurge; pedantry
    Derived form: verb ostentate1
  2. ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, inflation - lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
    --2 is a kind of inelegance
  3. ostentation - pretentious or showy or vulgar display
    --3 is a kind of
    pretentiousness, pretension
    Derived form: verb ostentate1
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