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Ostentation vs Luxurious - What's the difference?

ostentation | luxurious |

As a noun ostentation

is ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.

As an adjective luxurious is

enjoying pleasures of luxury.

ostentation

English

Noun

(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 ;

    Synonyms

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

    Related terms

    * ostentatious * ostensive * ostensible

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    luxurious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Enjoying pleasures of luxury.
  • Being very fine and comfortable.

    • Antonyms

    * impoverished

    Synonyms

    * epicurean

    See also

    * sumptuous

    Related terms

    * luxuriant * luxuriate * luxuriously * luxury

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