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Noun: grandiosity  ,gran-dee'ó-si-tee
  1. High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    "the grandiosity of his prose";
    - magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric

Derived forms: grandiosities

Type of: expressive style, style

Encyclopedia: Grandiosity