pomposity

[ pom-pos-i-tee ]

/ pɒmˈpɒs ɪ ti /

the quality of being pompous.

pompous parading of dignity or importance.

an instance of being pompous, as by ostentatious loftiness of language, manner, or behavior.

Also pomp·ous·ness

[pom-puh s-nis] /ˈpɒm pəs nɪs/ (for defs 1, 2).

Origin of pomposity

1400–50; late Middle English pomposite < Late Latin pompōsitās. See pompous, -ity

The idea that jazz has become a catchword for pomposity is painful for those of us who care deeply about this music.

What’s With This Uncool Surge in Jazz Bashing? |Ted Gioia |November 2, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Her preoccupied naturalness was in strange contrast to her father's pomposity and to William's military rigidity.

Night and Day |Virginia Woolf
"I should have expressed my displeasure if I had felt it," said his father with all the pomposity that was natural to him.

Michael |E. F. Benson
When he had retired, the Irishman said—He has a most ungainly figure, and an affectation of pomposity unworthy of a man of genius.

Haunted London |Walter Thornbury

But Birkeland was superior to this local weakness, and was genial, without the least pomposity.

Aspects and Impressions |Edmund Gosse
He is a very good-hearted person, and his pomposity merely a mannerism.

Lord Stranleigh Abroad |Robert Barr

pomposity

/ (pɒmˈpɒsɪtɪ) /

vain or ostentatious display of dignity or importance

the quality of being pompous

ostentatiously lofty style, language, etc

a pompous action, remark, etc