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Showiness

Showiness \Show"i*ness\, n. The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.

Wiktionary
showiness

n. The property of being showy.

WordNet
showiness

n. extravagant elaborateness [syn: flamboyance, floridness]

Usage examples of "showiness".

August is the heyday of its showiness, and it continues at least a month longer.

The current fashions strike Matt as an odd jumble of several different period styles, into which the jeans and loose shirjacks that he and Volkov are wearing will fit as workingmen's clothes, but in the less utilitarian outfits on display he can see an evolution toward showiness and elaboration since he was last here: Trousers and skirts are narrower, jackets shorter, shirts and blouses frillier, hats and heels taller.