noun
Meaning 1
The state of being ornate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ornateness
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noun
Meaning 2
an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: elaborateness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: appearance, visual aspect
Narrower terms: flamboyance, floridness, floridity, showiness, fussiness
noun
Meaning 3
high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the grandiosity of his prose
- an excessive ornateness of language
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: expressive style, style
Narrower terms: flourish, bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English ornate Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English ornateness From ornate + -ness.