flamboyantness
English edit
Etymology edit
From flamboyant + -ness.
Noun edit
flamboyantness (uncountable)
- The quality of being flamboyant.
- 1880, John Ruskin, “The Lamp of Truth”, in The Seven Lamps of Architecture, new edition, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, page 63:
- I beg that grave note be taken of this just condemnation of the essential character—“the flamboyant”ness—of the architecture which up to this time I had chiefly, and most affectionately, studied.
- 1922 January 11, J. M. McKee and Company, “Hold Your Money and Wait for This Sale”, in The Statesville Sentinel[1], volume XIX, number 5, Statesville, N.C.:
- OUR stock is CLEAN; all late BUY and well kept. This is the store of the BETTER CLASS with no FLAMBOYANTNESS in EVIDENCE.
- 1966, Field Notes: Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society, page 4:
- The flamboyantness of a professional writer does creep in now and then […].
- 1966, Ursula Bloom, Rosemary for Stratford-on-Avon, London: Robert Hale, page 84:
- It seemed for a moment as if the effervescent flamboyant[-]ness of Miss Corelli faded before the six-foot tall command of the statuesque Clara Butt.
- 1971, “Cultural Definitions of the Female Professional”, in Athena Theodore, editor, The Professional Woman, Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company, Inc., page 139:
- Science prides itself on being proper and precise, and any type of flamboyantness is looked upon with distrust.
- 1973, The Mississippi Quarterly, page 641:
- But the ease and un-flamboyantness of these similes owes to their yoking of near neighbors in the natural world.
- 1992 February 24, C.J. Fogel, “Calm before the storm in Louisiana”, in The Times, page 6A:
- “I like him [Paul Tsongas]. He’s a nice man but I don’t think he would have the flamboyantness that we would need to get things going as a president,” said [Everett] Doerge.
- 2011 October 13, Wendi C. Thomas, “Step out and parade pride in fair choice”, in The Commercial Appeal, page DSA2:
- “With the exception of some of the flamboyant-ness, it’s going to look like any other festival you might go to.” And by flamboyant, [Mike] Morgan is referring to the drag queens.
- 2013, Z. Adil, God of No Religion: A Boy’s Journey in Writing His Masterpiece and Discovering What He Calls Mr. God, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 41:
- The more naked men and women he sees walking in the house the more conscious he gets about himself and about his relationship with Jasmine. Her flamboyantness and openness sometimes scared Aamil and he becomes reluctant to a lot of things, especially if it has something to do with just two of them.
- 2013 October, “Spotlight Canada: Dead Funny”, in Cineplex Magazine[2], volume 14, number 10, Cineplex Entertainment, →ISSN, page 16:
- “This movie is about a kind-of nice couple, kind-of square to be perfectly honest, and they want to have like a weekend retreat to show each other love and then Salinger, my character, comes in and ruins that with his big, you know, flamboyantness, and ends up getting killed because he’s an idiot.”