noun
- High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation.
- usage: "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"
- synonyms: grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric
- An ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated.
- synonyms: elaborateness
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