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English Dictionary: grandiosity by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
grandiosity
n
  1. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"
    Synonym(s): grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Grandiosity \Gran"di*os"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. grandiosit[82], It.
      grandiosit[85].]
      The state or quality of being grandiose,
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