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Ornateness

noun
1.
High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation.  Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric.  "An excessive ornateness of language"
2.
An ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated.  Synonym: elaborateness.





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"Ornateness" Quotes from Famous Books



... emphatic type—large-sized, active, bold and debonair in demeanour, vain beyond a doubt, slightly swaggering, ready and at ease. He was well-clothed, but with a shade too much ornateness. He was seeking a lawyer; but if that fact would seem to saddle him with troubles they were not patent in his beaming ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry


Words linked to "Ornateness" :   floridity, ornate, rhetoric, style, floridness, claptrap, magniloquence, expressive style, bombast, visual aspect, fussiness, fustian, flamboyance, grandiosity, flourish, rant, showiness, elaborateness, appearance, blah


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