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

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Sultan of the Steppes 2005

  • 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.

    Sultan of the Steppes 2005

  • 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.

    Sultan of the Steppes 2005

  • To argue that blogs are different goes well beyond “triumphalism” — I’d call it grandiosity, or narcissism.

    Defying definition « BuzzMachine 2005

  • The grandiosity is a species of magical thinking (letting your needs and desires dictate your perceptions and analyses).

    Hillary Rettig: Perfectionism And Addiction 2009

  • That speaks to more grandiosity, which is a part of a sociopathic personality disorder.

    CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2008 2008

  • And his grandiosity has been his defense, which is, you know, I'm a senator.

    CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2007 2007

  • Is that a portent of grandiosity, which is sometimes a characteristic of sociopathic personality?

    CNN Transcript May 24, 2007 2007

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