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Gaudiness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Pretension in appearance; looking overly done and distastefully adorned.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being gaudy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality or condition of being gaudy; showiness; ostentatiousness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. strident color or excessive ornamentation

n. tasteless showiness

Word Usage

"Situating its apparent "gaudiness" well beyond any sense of what might constitute the aesthetically appropriate, Lewis's romance was denounced by Coleridge as a malevolent network of "libidinous minuteness," an intricate web which, once activated, articulated for even its most suspecting of readers a range of "powerful stimulants" and "meretricious attractions.""

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ugliness tastelessness

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