| NOUN | communication | ornateness, grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric | high-flown style |
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| attribute | ornateness, elaborateness | an ornate appearance |
| Meaning | High-flown style; excessive use of verbal / verbal ornamentation. | |
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| Example | "an excessive ornateness of language" | |
| Synonyms | grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric | |
| Narrower | bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah | pompous or pretentious talk or writing |
| flourish | A display of ornamental speech or language | |
| Broader | 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 |
| Spanish | altilocuencia, altisonancia, grandilocuencia, grandiloqüencia | |
| Catalan | altiloqüència, altisonància, grandiloqüència | |
| Adjectives | ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details |
| Meaning | An ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated. | |
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| Synonym | elaborateness | |
| Narrower | flamboyance, floridness, floridity, showiness | Extravagant elaborateness |
| fussiness | unnecessary elaborateness / elaborateness in details | |
| Broader | appearance, visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing |
| Spanish | elaboración, vistosidad | |
| Catalan | elaboració, vistositat | |
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