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Extravagant elaborateness
Answer for the clue "Extravagant elaborateness ", 9 letters:
showiness
Alternative clues for the word showiness
Word definitions for showiness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being showy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Showiness \Show"i*ness\, n. The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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.