Pretentiousness is valid Scrabble Word

Is pretentiousness a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is pretentiousness valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

15 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for PRETENTIOUSNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:

PRETENTIOUS, making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing)
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

ADJECTIVE:

attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

characterized by pretension; as making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing); expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature

Words related to PRETENTIOUSNESS

pretentious13

Words that contain PRETENTIOUSNESS

unpretentiousness19 pretentiousnesses19 unpretentiousnesses21

How to use PRETENTIOUSNESS in a sentence

He probed character with a glance, and was particularly sharp on pretentiousness and self-importance.
Even leaving aside the discomforts which are always allied to pretentiousness, the poor rich woman has a hard time of it.
The weak point of the opera is to be found in the tendency from which Meyerbeer was never safe, to drop into mere pretentiousness when he meant to be most impressive.
Roman foppery, fantastical in feminine pretentiousness, serves as a foil to drag Culagna down into the ditch of ignominy.
She it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us.
He knew pretentiousness for the mask of worthlessness and weakness.
Nevertheless he regarded it as essentially absurd in its pretentiousness.
Affectation and pretentiousness and the desire to show off are abundant in all countries.

Similar words containing TENTIOUSNES without suffix s and without prefix pre

contentiousness17 sententiousness15 contentiousnesses19 unpretentiousness19 sententiousnesses17 pretentiousnesses19 unpretentiousnesses21

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