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flamboyantness

flamboyantness noun: the quality of being flamboyant.

Noun

flamboyantness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being flamboyant.
    • 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.1880, John Ruskin, “The Lamp of Truth”, in The Seven Lamps of Architecture, new edition, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, page 63
    • OUR stock is CLEAN; all late BUY and well kept. This is the store of the BETTER CLASS with no FLAMBOYANTNESS in EVIDENCE.1922 January 11, J. M. McKee and Company, “Hold Your Money and Wait for This Sale”, in The Statesville Sentinel, volume XIX, number 5, Statesville, N.C.

Examples of flamboyantness in a sentence

  • The flamboyantness of a professional writer does creep in now and then[…].1966, Field Notes: Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society, page 4:
  • Science prides itself on being proper and precise, and any type of flamboyantness is looked upon with distrust.1971, “Cultural Definitions of the Female Professional”, in Athena Theodore, editor, The Professional Woman, Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman...
  • But the ease and un-flamboyantness of these similes owes to their yoking of near neighbors in the natural world.1973, The Mississippi Quarterly, page 641:
  • 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.1992 February 24, C.J. Fogel, “Calm before the storm in Louisiana”, in The Times, page 6A:

Synonyms of flamboyantness

Origin of flamboyantness

From flamboyant + -ness.

Questions about flamboyantness

What does flamboyantness mean?
Flamboyantness means the quality of being flamboyant.
How do you use flamboyantness in a sentence?
The flamboyantness of a professional writer does creep in now and then[…].
What part of speech is flamboyantness?
Flamboyantness is a noun.

Words near flamboyantness in the dictionary

  1. flamboyancy
  2. flamboyant
  3. flamboyant cuttlefish
  4. flamboyant cuttlefishes
  5. flamboyantly
  6. flamboyantness
  7. flamboyants
  8. flamboyer
  9. flamboyers
  10. flamboys
  11. flambs

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