ostentation

Pretentious display meant to impress others; pretentious showiness.

The act or an instance of showing; an exhibition.

Display; especially, public display.

A sight or spectacle; show; ceremony.

Ambitious display; pretentious parade; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.

Synonyms Show, Display, Parade, Ostentation, flourish, dash. Show is the most general word for the purposed exhibition of that which might have been kept private; as such, it includes the others. Ostentation is always bad; the others may be good in certain relations. Parade and display are more suggestive of the simple act, ostentation of the spirit: as, to make a parade of one’s learning; it was ostentation that led the Pharisees to make a parade or display of their charities and prayers. Parade is a matter of vanity; ostentation, of vanity, pride, or ambition.

The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; — usually in a detractive sense.

A show or spectacle.

Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.

A show or spectacle.