baroqueness

1. 1.

   elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

   Synonymsbaroque

   Broaderartistic style

Other forms of baroqueness

plural

baroquenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about baroqueness

What does baroqueness mean?

baroqueness means "elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century".

How many syllables are in baroqueness?

baroqueness has 4 syllables: ba-roq-ue-ness. The stress falls on "roq".

What is another word for baroqueness?

Close synonyms include baroque. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is baroqueness a common word?

baroqueness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.