No, it&#x27;s more like the wealth of other adjectives that follow the pattern of &quot;having&#x2F;with -ance&quot; -&gt; &quot;-ant&quot;. Important, significant, brilliant, vigilant, cognizant, dissonant, exuberant, invariant, radiant, elegant, abundant, ...<p>I suppose you could say that someone using just about <i>any</i> of those words is trying to sound smart or overly formal, and so we should deny their status as words to bring the speakers down a notch.