ORNATENESS

• (noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated

  synonyms : elaborateness

• (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

  "the grandiosity of his prose", "an excessive ornateness of language"

  synonyms : grandiloquence , grandiosity , magniloquence , rhetoric

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