bumptiousness

From bumptious +‎ -ness.

bumptiousness (usually uncountable, plural bumptiousnesses)

1. The state of being bumptious; conceitedness.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 13, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

     Gerald's special mixture of laziness and ambition seemed to crystallize under the camera into brutal bumptiousness.

• “bumptiousness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.