venditation · noun — boastfulness; showing off. It carries an Arena rating of 1349, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, venditation ranks #2,154 of 17,151 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #2,418 of 17,201 for Funniest Words, #3,029 of 17,197 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words, #3,079 of 17,205 for The Improbable.
Why “venditation” is a great word
VENDITATION — [Noun] Boastfulness or a vain ostentation; the act of showing off. From the Latin venditatio, from venditare ("to offer repeatedly for sale"), a frequentative of vendere ("to sell"). Unlike "jactation," which suggests a restless, almost physical flinging of boasts, or "ostentation," a broader term for conspicuous display, venditation is the specific, pedantic act of hawking one's own merits as if they were wares at a market. It is the polished brass nameplate on an unremarkable door, the strategically placed diploma in the Zoom background, the rehearsed anecdote slipped too neatly into conversation—a quiet commerce where the currency is admiration, and the seller is also the sole, desperate buyer.
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Etymology
From Latin venditatio, from venditare, venditatum (“to offer again and again for sale”), v. freq. of vendere. See vend.
noun
- boastfulness; showing off.e.g.“And some, by a cunning protestation against all reading, and false venditation of their own naturals, think to divert the fagacity of their readers from themselves” — 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter:
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