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FLORIDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does floridness mean?
• FLORIDNESS (noun)
The noun FLORIDNESS has 1 sense:
1. extravagant elaborateness
Familiarity information: FLORIDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extravagant elaborateness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
flamboyance; floridity; floridness; showiness
Context example:
he wrote with great flamboyance
Hypernyms ("floridness" is a kind of...):
elaborateness; ornateness (an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated)
Derivation:
florid (elaborately or excessively ornamented)
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