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ORNATENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
Synonyms:
elaborateness; ornateness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("ornateness" is a kind of...):
appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ornateness"):
flamboyance; floridity; floridness; showiness (extravagant elaborateness)
fussiness (unnecessary elaborateness in details)
Sense 2
Meaning:
High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
Example:
an excessive ornateness of language
Synonyms:
grandiloquence; grandiosity; magniloquence; ornateness; rhetoric
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ornateness" is a kind of...):
expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ornateness"):
flourish (a display of ornamental speech or language)
blah; bombast; claptrap; fustian; rant (pompous or pretentious talk or writing)
Derivation:
ornate (marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details)
