[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]