pretentiousness

pretentiousness
subs.
P. and V. τὸ σεμνόν.
I am sick of ambassadors and popinjays and such pretensiousness: Ar. ἄχθομαι ʼγὼ πρέσβεσι καὶ τοῖς ταῶσι τοῖς τʼ ἀλαζονεύμασι (Ar. Ach. 62).