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SHOWINESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does showiness mean?

• SHOWINESS (noun)
The noun SHOWINESS has 1 sense:

1. extravagant elaborateness

Familiarity information: SHOWINESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SHOWINESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Extravagant elaborateness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

flamboyance; floridity; floridness; showiness

Context example:

he wrote with great flamboyance

Hypernyms ("showiness" is a kind of...):

elaborateness; ornateness (an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated)

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