bumptiousness

noun

bumptiousness

noun

Etymology From bumptious + -ness.

1

Usually The state of being bumptious; conceitedness.

Gerald's special mixture of laziness and ambition seemed to crystallize under the camera into brutal bumptiousness.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 13, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

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