Braggart vs Ostentation - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between braggart and ostentation

is that braggart is someone who boasts while ostentation is ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.

(en noun)

someone who boasts.

* Shakespeare

O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, / And braggart with my tongue.

* braggadocio * bragger * boaster * See also

(en-noun)

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

(obsolete) A show or spectacle.

* 1599 ,

Let her awhile be secretly kept in,

And publish it that she is dead indeed:

Maintain a mourning ostentation ;

* parade * pageantry * show * showiness * pomp * pompousness * vaunting * boasting * See also

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