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ornateness
noun as in elegance
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noun as in urbanity
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- breeding
- charm
- class
- courtliness
- cultivation
- culture
- delicacy
- dignity
- discernment
- distinction
- exquisiteness
- felicity
- gentility
- grace
- gracefulness
- grandeur
- lushness
- luxury
- magnificence
- nicety
- nobility
- noblesse
- polish
- politeness
- propriety
- purity
- refinement
- restraint
- rhythm
- sophistication
- splendor
- style
- sumptuousness
- symmetry
- tastefulness
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Example Sentences
Most strikingly, the room’s ornateness underscores the toll of the city’s loss, and the consequences of denying Black people the ability to pass on their wealth across generations.
Two long aisles are chock-full of 125-pound cash registers, which have varying degrees of ornateness.
That ornateness is perfectly suited to “Once on This Island,” a fable of love and death and temperamental gods set in the French Antilles.
In case you don’t get the joke, the concrete floor, as blank and brusque as the painting, also highlights the cheeky ornateness of the settee, ottoman and pillow.
Long sentences have always appealed to me, as well as a kind of ornateness of style.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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