Definition of "grandiosity" []

• The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious). (noun)

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• "The things outsiders find absurd or threatening about California — the self-fashioned spiritual practices, the bodybuilder/action-star governor, the crazy diets, the junk bonds, the endless supply of new fictions, the UCLA - and Palo Alto – born Internet — do share a certain grandiosity, a ridiculous desire to change the world, or at least oneself."
• "That so many around the world are humoring his grandiosity is owing mainly to the country's impressive deposits of oil, which began to be developed intensively after the collapse of the Soviet Union."
• "To argue that blogs are different goes well beyond “triumphalism” — I’d call it grandiosity, or narcissism."