floridness

Questions about floridness

What does floridness mean?

floridness means "extravagant elaborateness".

How many syllables are in floridness?

floridness has 3 syllables and divides as flo-rid-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for floridness?

Close synonyms include flamboyance, floridity, showiness. 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 floridness a common word?

floridness 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.