"grandiosity" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: grandiosities [plural]
Etymology: grandiose + -ity Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|grandiose|ity}} grandiose + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} grandiosity (countable and uncountable, plural grandiosities)
  1. The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious). Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the state of being grandiose): помпозност (pompoznost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), претенциозност (pretencioznost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), Großspurigkeit [feminine] (German), wspaniałość [feminine] (Polish), majestatyczność [feminine] (Polish)

Inflected forms

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