bumptiousness
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bumptiousness (usually uncountable, plural bumptiousnesses)
- The state of being bumptious; conceitedness.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 13, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- Gerald's special mixture of laziness and ambition seemed to crystallize under the camera into brutal bumptiousness.
Translations edit
the state of being bumptious
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References edit
- “bumptiousness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.