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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation;
- Example: "the grandiosity of his prose"
- Example: "an excessive ornateness of language"
[syn: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric]

2. an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated;
[syn: ornateness, elaborateness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ornateness \Or*nate"ness\, n. The quality of being ornate. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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