bumptiousness

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English

Etymology

From bumptious +‎ -ness.

Noun

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

the state of being bumptious

Irish: tollmhóire f

References

“bumptiousness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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