ornateness

2 definitions found

ornateness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Ornateness \Or*nate"ness\, n.
     The quality of being ornate.
     [1913 Webster]

ornateness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]