Seeking a noun for "a condescending, didactic, long-winded speech or soliloquy"
- Looking for a noun
- Intended meaning: “a condescending, didactic, long-winded speech or soliloquy for the purpose of one’s own self-aggrandizement”
- Prefer it not to end in (-tion)
Below are my initial attempts starting with the closest match.
Connotations in parentheses.
Closest:
- Bloviation (long-winded, inflated, empty, pompous, arrogant)
- Pontification (pompous, dogmatic)
Not as good:
- Diatribe, Harangue, Tirade (overemphasis on anger and criticism)
- Gasconade (overemphasis on boastfulness as opposed to condescension and didacticism)
- Jeremiad (overemphasis on complaint)
- Prattle, Chatter, Witter, Babble (overemphasis on triviality)
- Bombast (pompous, grandiloquent)(refers to the manner of speech not the speech itself “Bombast made the speech intolerable” – not “She delivered a bombast”)
Solution 1:
You can consider rodomontade.
A vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful, arrogant, or bombastic speech or piece of writing [OED]
An example from OED:
1862 Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. viii. 144 Phil used to bore me after dinner with endless rodomontades about his passion and his charmer; but my wife was never tired of listening.
Etymology of the word from Etymonline:
1610s (earlier rodomontado, 1590s), "vain boasting like that of Rodomonte," character in Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso." In dialectal Italian the name means literally "one who rolls (away) the mountain."
Note: Rodomontado is a synonym and partly from Italian rodomontata and partly an alteration of rodomontade, after -ado suffix.