ornateness

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English

Etymology

From ornate +‎ -ness.

Noun

ornateness (countable and uncountable, plural ornatenesses)

  1. The state of being ornate.
    • 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116:
      From the prevailing colonial perspective, the English of the babus was error-ridden and characterised by over-elaborate ornateness, and for these ‘transgressions’ it became the butt of native-speaker ridicule.