ostensibilityn.
/ɒˌstɛnsᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /əˌstɛnsəˈbɪlᵻdi/ Now rare.
The quality of being ostensible; ability to be shown or exhibited; (formerly also) †conspicuousness, ostentation (obsolete).
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun]
boast1297
strut1303
bombancec1325
bobantc1330
bobancec1380
ambitionc1384
oliprancec1390
pretence?a1439
ostentationa1475
pransawtea1500
bravity1546
finesse1549
bravery1573
overlashing1579
brave1596
peacockry1596
garishness1598
maggot ostentation1598
ostent1609
flaunta1625
spectability1637
vantation1637
fastuousness1649
fastuosity1656
finery1656
parade1656
phantastry1656
ostentatiousness1658
éclat1704
pretension1706
braw1724
swell1724
showiness1730
ostensibility1775
fanfaronade1784
display1816
showing off1822
glimmer1827
tigerism1836
peacockery1844
show-off1846
flare1847
peacockism1854
swank1854
tigerishness1869
flashness1888
flamboyance1891
peacockishness1892
flamboyancy1896
swankiness1920
plushness1949
glitziness1982
fantasia-
fantastication-
1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) I. xxvii. 181 People of low education, and little mind, were always capable of a silly ostensibility, that sooner or later brought them into disgrace.
1795 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 117 He studiously avoided ostensibility, and left to others the danger, as well as the honour, of acting an open and explicit part.
1803 J. Bentham Let. 1 June (1998) VII. 235 Inclosed I have the satisfact[io]n to send you a letter just rec[eive]d from Mr Wilberforce... It seems to me designed for ostensibility.
1955 Philos. Q. 5 67 Things of the most common occurrence and the most ready ostensibility.
1995 R. A. Stallings Promoting Risk 215 (note) He..argues that there are types of risk where knowledge is characterized by both high repeatability and high ostensibility that can only reflect the objective reality of nature.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1775- throw someone on the slagheap
- throw someone out on etc ass
- throw someone out on her ass
- throw someone out on his ass
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