ORNATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ornateness mean? 

• ORNATENESS (noun)
  The noun ORNATENESS has 2 senses:

1. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

2. an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated

  Familiarity information: ORNATENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORNATENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

grandiloquence; grandiosity; magniloquence; ornateness; rhetoric

Context example:

an excessive ornateness of language

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

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ornateness"):

flourish (a display of ornamental speech or language)

blah; bombast; claptrap; fustian; rant (pompous or pretentious talk or writing)

Derivation:

ornate (marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

elaborateness; ornateness

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

appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ornateness"):

flamboyance; floridity; floridness; showiness (extravagant elaborateness)

fussiness (unnecessary elaborateness in details)