GAUDINESS

garishness, gaudiness

(noun) strident color or excessive ornamentation

flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz

(noun) tasteless showiness

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

gaudiness (countable and uncountable, plural gaudinesses)

Pretension in appearance; looking overly and distastefully adorned.

Anagrams

• Agnus Deis

Source: Wiktionary


Gaud"i*ness, n.

Definition: The quality of being gaudy. Whitlock.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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