ornateness

1. 1.

   high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

   “the grandiosity of his prose”

   “an excessive ornateness of language”

   Synonymsgrandiositymagniloquencegrandiloquencerhetoric

   Broaderexpressive style

   Narrowerflourishbombast
2. 2.

   an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated

   Synonymselaborateness

   Broaderappearance

   Narrowerflamboyancefussiness

Other forms of ornateness

plural

ornatenesses·

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 ornateness

What does ornateness mean?

ornateness means "high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ornateness?

ornateness has 4 syllables: or-na-te-ness. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for ornateness?

Close synonyms include grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric, elaborateness. 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 ornateness a common word?

ornateness 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.