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CEREMONIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ceremoniousness mean? 

CEREMONIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun CEREMONIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. a ceremonial mannerplay

  Familiarity information: CEREMONIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CEREMONIOUSNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A ceremonial manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("ceremoniousness" is a kind of...):

formality; formalness (a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies)

Antonym:

unceremoniousness (an unceremonial manner)

Derivation:

ceremonious (rigidly formal or bound by convention)


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