ornateness

English

Etymology

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.