grandiosity

English

Etymology

From grandiose +‎ -ity.

Noun

grandiosity (countable and uncountable, plural grandiosities)

1. The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious).
   • 1973, Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Part Three, Chapter 9, pp.202-3:

     […] the narcissistic leader does not use his narcissistic charisma only as a means for political success; he needs success and applause for the sake of his own mental equilibrium. The idea of his greatness and infallibility is essentially based on his narcissistic grandiosity, not on his real achievements as a human being.

   • 2023 September 30, Alexis Petridis, “U2 review – an utterly astonishing, admirably raw Vegas extravaganza”, in The Guardian‎^[1], London:

     U2 have never been a band noted for their love of shy understatement, but even by their standards, their arrival in Las Vegas represents a hitherto-unimagined degree of grandiosity.

Translations

the state of being grandiose

• Bulgarian: помпозност (bg) f (pompoznost), претенциозност (bg) f (pretencioznost)
• German: Großspurigkeit (de) f
• Polish: wspaniałość (pl) f, majestatyczność f