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Showiness vs Pageantry - What's the difference?

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Showiness is a related term of pageantry.


As nouns the difference between showiness and pageantry

is that showiness is the property of being showy while pageantry is a pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.

showiness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The property of being showy.

    • pageantry

    English

    Noun

    (pageantries)
  • A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
  • *1609 : William Shakespeare, Pericles (V, ii)
  • *:That you aptly will suppose / What pageantry , what feats, what shows, / What minstrelsy, and pretty din, / The regent made in Mytilene / To greet the king.
  • *1849 : Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
  • *:The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry , with silken streamers flying, ...