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ornateness

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ornateness in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
    ornateness  elaborateness 
  2. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"
    grandiosity  magniloquence  ornateness  grandiloquence  rhetoric 
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