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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Os·ten·ta·tious a. Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful.
    Far from being ostentatious of the good you do.   --Dryden.
    The ostentatious professions of many years.   --Macaulay.
 -- Os*ten*ta*tious*ly, adv. -- Os*ten*ta*tious*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ostentatiousness
      n : lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and
          puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, pomposity, pompousness,
           pretentiousness, splashiness, inflation]