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Noun: ornateness  or'neyt-nus
  1. High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    "an excessive ornateness of language";
    - grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric
     
  2. An ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
    - elaborateness

Type of: appearance, expressive style, style, visual aspect

Nearest

Ormosia monosperma
Ormuzd
ornament
ornamental
ornamentalism
ornamentalist
ornamentally
ornamentation
ornate
ornately
ornateness
orneriness
ornery
ornithine
Ornithischia
ornithischian
ornithischian dinosaur
Ornithogalum
Ornithogalum pyrenaicum
Ornithogalum thyrsoides
Ornithogalum umbellatum