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POSTURING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does posturing mean?
• POSTURING (noun)
The noun POSTURING has 1 sense:
1. adopting a vain conceited posture
Familiarity information: POSTURING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Adopting a vain conceited posture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("posturing" is a kind of...):
conceit; conceitedness; vanity (the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride)
Context examples
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale-A (BPRS-A) Mannerisms and posturing.
(BPRS-A - Mannerisms and Posturing, NCI Thesaurus)
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