Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being grandiose; bombastic or inflated style or manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being grandiose
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
grandiose (pompous or pretentious).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
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Examples
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The things outsiders find absurd or threatening about California — the self-fashioned spiritual practices, the bodybuilder/action-star governor, the crazy diets, the junk bonds, the endless supply of new fictions, the UCLA - and Palo Alto – born Internet — do share a certain grandiosity, a ridiculous desire to change the world, or at least oneself.
The Iconographer 2006
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The things outsiders find absurd or threatening about California — the self-fashioned spiritual practices, the bodybuilder/action-star governor, the crazy diets, the junk bonds, the endless supply of new fictions, the UCLA - and Palo Alto – born Internet — do share a certain grandiosity, a ridiculous desire to change the world, or at least oneself.
The Iconographer 2006
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That so many around the world are humoring his grandiosity is owing mainly to the country's impressive deposits of oil, which began to be developed intensively after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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That so many around the world are humoring his grandiosity is owing mainly to the country's impressive deposits of oil, which began to be developed intensively after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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That so many around the world are humoring his grandiosity is owing mainly to the country's impressive deposits of oil, which began to be developed intensively after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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To argue that blogs are different goes well beyond “triumphalism” — I’d call it grandiosity, or narcissism.
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The grandiosity is a species of magical thinking (letting your needs and desires dictate your perceptions and analyses).
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That speaks to more grandiosity, which is a part of a sociopathic personality disorder.
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And his grandiosity has been his defense, which is, you know, I'm a senator.
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Is that a portent of grandiosity, which is sometimes a characteristic of sociopathic personality?
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