grandiosity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    grandiloquence; rhetoric; ornateness; magniloquence.
    • the grandiosity of his prose
    • an excessive ornateness of language

WordNet


Gran"di*os"i*ty noun
Etymology
Cf. F. grandiosité, It. grandiosità.
Definitions
  1. The state or quality of being grandiose,

Webster 1913