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Ornateness Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Ornateness has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

"the grandiosity of his prose"

"an excessive ornateness of language"

2

an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated

3

The state of being ornate.

See Also
ornate
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
expressive style appearance
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
flourish bombast flamboyance fussiness
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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