Hyphenation of pretentiousness

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word pretentiousness? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

pre-ten-tious-ness

Definitions of pretentiousness:

1.	Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
2.	The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

Synonyms of pretentiousness:

noun	ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, splashiness, inflation, inelegance
noun	pretension, unnaturalness

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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