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ornatenesses

ornatenesses is the plural of ornateness.

Meaning of ornateness

Noun

ornateness (countable and uncountable, plural ornatenesses)

  1. The state of being ornate.
    • 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.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116

Questions about ornatenesses

What is ornatenesses the plural of?
Ornatenesses is the plural of ornateness.

Words near ornatenesses in the dictionary

  1. ornate tinamou
  2. ornate tinamous
  3. ornated
  4. ornately
  5. ornateness
  6. ornatenesses
  7. ornates
  8. ornatest
  9. ornating
  10. ornative
  11. ornatives

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