Exact Match:
- garishness
- strident color or excessive ornamentation
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- blatancy
collapse - the property of being both obvious and offensive; "the blatancy of his attempt to whitewash the crime was unforgivable" related words >
- arrantness,
- boldness,
- brazenness,
- clamorousness,
- colorfulness,
- conspicuousness,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- flagrance,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- high relief,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- loudness,
- luridness,
- meretriciousness,
- noisiness,
- noticeability,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- obtrusiveness,
- ostentation,
- outstandingness,
- panache,
- prominence,
- pronouncedness,
- salience,
- saliency,
- sensationalism,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- sportiness,
- strikingness,
- strong relief,
- tawdriness,
- vociferousness,
- vulgarness
- panache
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- a feathered plume on a helmet related words >
- animation,
- blatancy,
- boldness,
- brazenness,
- brio,
- chic,
- colorfulness,
- crest,
- crudeness,
- cultivation,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- eclat,
- elan,
- energy,
- enthusiasm,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- feather,
- flagrancy,
- flair,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flourish,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glitter,
- good taste,
- gorgeousness,
- gusto,
- hackle,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- liveliness,
- loudness,
- luridness,
- meretriciousness,
- obtrusiveness,
- pinion,
- plume,
- plumule,
- quill,
- savoir faire,
- scapular,
- self-assurance,
- sensationalism,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- smartness,
- sophistication,
- spirit,
- sportiness,
- style,
- swagger,
- tawdriness,
- topknot,
- tuft,
- verve,
- vigor,
- vulgarness,
- zest
- amplitude,
- arsenic green,
- auditory effect,
- auditory phenomenon,
- blatancy,
- brazenness,
- clashing colors,
- coarseness,
- color clash,
- colorfulness,
- crassness,
- crudeness,
- crudity,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- earthiness,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grossness,
- jaundiced yellow,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- luridness,
- meretriciousness,
- noise,
- obscenity,
- obtrusiveness,
- panache,
- phone,
- rawness,
- ribaldry,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- screaming color,
- sensationalism,
- shamelessness,
- shocking pink,
- showiness,
- sonance,
- sound,
- sound intensity level,
- sound propagation,
- sound wave,
- speech sound,
- sportiness,
- tawdriness,
- ultrasound,
- vulgarness
- flamboyance
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- extravagant elaborateness; "he wrote with great flamboyance" related words >
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- blare,
- blatancy,
- blaze,
- blazing light,
- blinding light,
- brazenness,
- bright light,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- brilliancy,
- brilliant light,
- burst of light,
- chinoiserie,
- colorfulness,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzling light,
- dazzlingness,
- effulgence,
- elaborateness,
- elegance,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- fanciness,
- fineness,
- flagrancy,
- flashiness,
- flood of light,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- floweriness,
- fulgor,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glaring light,
- glitter,
- glory,
- gorgeousness,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- loudness,
- luridness,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriousness,
- meretriciousness,
- moresque,
- obtrusiveness,
- ostentation,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overornamentation,
- panache,
- radiance,
- radiancy,
- radiant splendor,
- refulgence,
- refulgency,
- resplendence,
- resplendency,
- richness,
- rococo,
- sensationalism,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- splendor,
- sportiness,
- streaming light,
- tawdriness,
- vividness,
- vulgarness
- glitter
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- the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
- the occurrence of a small flash or spark
- be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening" related words >
- be somebody,
- be something,
- bespangle,
- blatancy,
- blink,
- blinking,
- brazenness,
- brilliance,
- colorfulness,
- coruscate,
- coruscation,
- crudeness,
- cut a dash,
- cut a figure,
- cut a swath,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- figure,
- firefly,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flash,
- flashiness,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glamor,
- glance,
- glare,
- gleam,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- glint,
- glisk,
- glisten,
- glister,
- glittering,
- glow,
- glowworm,
- gorgeousness,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- live,
- loudness,
- luridness,
- make a figure,
- make a show,
- make a splash,
- meretriciousness,
- obtrusiveness,
- ostentation,
- pageantry,
- panache,
- pizzazz,
- refulgence,
- scintilla,
- scintillate,
- scintillation,
- sensationalism,
- shamelessness,
- shimmer,
- shimmering,
- shine,
- showiness,
- spangle,
- spark,
- sparkle,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splendor,
- splurge,
- sportiness,
- stroboscopic light,
- tawdriness,
- tinsel,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- vulgarness
- flatulence
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- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal related words >
- Barnumism,
- aeriness,
- affectation,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- convolution,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- dropsy,
- edema,
- ethereality,
- fart,
- flashiness,
- flatulency,
- flatuosity,
- flatus,
- fluidity,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gas,
- gaseity,
- gaseous state,
- gaseousness,
- gassiness,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- high-flown diction,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- intumescence,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- meteorism,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- puff,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- vapor pressure,
- vaporiness,
- vaporousness,
- wind,
- windiness
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- blowing up,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- convolution,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- fancy talk,
- fine talk,
- fish story,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gas,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hot air,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall story,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- bedizenment,
- belief,
- big talk,
- buckram,
- ceremonial,
- ceremoniousness,
- ceremony,
- certitude,
- cocksureness,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- conviction,
- convolution,
- courage,
- dignity,
- extrinsicality,
- faith,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- form,
- formality,
- formalization,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- gravity,
- high-flown diction,
- hubris,
- impersonality,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- poise,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomp,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontificality,
- pontification,
- positiveness,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pride,
- primness,
- prose run mad,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- rigidness,
- ritual,
- rituality,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-confidence,
- self-importance,
- self-reliance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- settled belief,
- showiness,
- solemnity,
- starchiness,
- stiffness,
- stiltedness,
- stuffiness,
- stylization,
- subjective certainty,
- sureness,
- surety,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trust,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- weight
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- apparent character,
- appearances,
- arsenic green,
- bedizenment,
- beggarliness,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- brazenness,
- cheapness,
- clashing colors,
- coarseness,
- color clash,
- colorfulness,
- contemptibleness,
- convolution,
- crassness,
- crudeness,
- crudity,
- crumminess,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- despicableness,
- display,
- earthiness,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- facade,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- grossness,
- high-flown diction,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- jaundiced yellow,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- meanness,
- mere externals,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- meritlessness,
- miserableness,
- obscenity,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- paltriness,
- panache,
- pitiableness,
- pitifulness,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- poorness,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- public image,
- rawness,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- ribaldry,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- sadness,
- screaming color,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- shabbiness,
- shamelessness,
- shocking pink,
- shoddiness,
- show,
- showiness,
- sorriness,
- speciousness,
- sportiness,
- stiltedness,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unworthiness,
- vain show,
- vileness,
- vulgarness,
- worthlessness,
- wretchedness
- extravaganza
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- any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment related words >
- Grand Guignol,
- Passion play,
- Tom show,
- antimasque,
- audience success,
- ballet,
- blatancy,
- bomb,
- brazenness,
- broadcast drama,
- burlesque show,
- canard,
- charade,
- cliff hanger,
- closet drama,
- colorfulness,
- comedy drama,
- concoction,
- critical success,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- daytime serial,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- dialogue,
- documentary drama,
- drama,
- dramalogue,
- dramatic play,
- dramatic series,
- duodrama,
- duologue,
- epic theater,
- experimental theater,
- exposition,
- extravagance,
- extravagation,
- fable,
- fabrication,
- failure,
- fiction,
- figment,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flop,
- forgery,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gasser,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- giveaway,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- happening,
- hit,
- hit show,
- improvisational drama,
- invention,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- legitimate drama,
- loudness,
- luridness,
- masque,
- melodrama,
- meretriciousness,
- minstrel show,
- miracle,
- miracle play,
- monodrama,
- monologue,
- morality,
- morality play,
- music drama,
- musical revue,
- mystery,
- mystery play,
- myth,
- obtrusiveness,
- opera,
- pageant,
- panache,
- panel show,
- pantomime,
- pastoral,
- pastoral drama,
- piece,
- play,
- playlet,
- problem play,
- production,
- psychodrama,
- quiz show,
- radio drama,
- review,
- revue,
- romance,
- sensational play,
- sensationalism,
- serial,
- shamelessness,
- show,
- showiness,
- sitcom,
- situation comedy,
- sketch,
- skit,
- soap,
- soap opera,
- sociodrama,
- spectacle,
- spectacular,
- sportiness,
- stage play,
- stage show,
- straight drama,
- success,
- suspense drama,
- tableau,
- tableau vivant,
- talk show,
- tawdriness,
- teleplay,
- television drama,
- television play,
- theater of cruelty,
- total theater,
- variety show,
- vaudeville,
- vaudeville show,
- vehicle,
- vulgarness,
- word-of-mouth success,
- work
- sensationalism
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- the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation"
- subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes related words >
- Barnumism,
- Thespian art,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amateur theatricals,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- blood and thunder,
- blowing up,
- brazenness,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- colorfulness,
- convolution,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- demonstrativeness,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- extreme,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- huckstering,
- human interest,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- loudness,
- love interest,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- making scenes,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- nonrationalness,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- panache,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- play construction,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sententiousness,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- sportiness,
- staginess,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unreasoningness,
- visceralness,
- vulgarness,
- yellow journalism
- dazzle
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- brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily
- amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill; "Her arguments dazzled everyone"; "The dancer dazzled the audience with his turns and jumps"
- to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light; "She was dazzled by the bright headlights" related words >
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- amaze,
- astonish,
- astound,
- awe,
- awestrike,
- ball up,
- bandage,
- be bright,
- beacon,
- beam,
- becloud,
- bedaze,
- bedazzle,
- befuddle,
- beguile,
- benight,
- bewilder,
- bewitch,
- blatancy,
- blaze,
- blind,
- blind the eyes,
- blindfold,
- boggle,
- bother,
- bowl down,
- bowl over,
- brazenness,
- brilliance,
- bug,
- burn,
- captivate,
- charm,
- cloud,
- colorfulness,
- confound,
- confuse,
- crudeness,
- cut a dash,
- cut a figure,
- cut a swath,
- darken,
- dash,
- daze,
- dazzlingness,
- deprive of sight,
- diffuse light,
- dim,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disturb,
- dumbfound,
- dumbfounder,
- eclipse,
- embarrass,
- enchant,
- entangle,
- entrance,
- excecate,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- fascinate,
- flabbergast,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flame,
- flare,
- flash,
- flashiness,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fuddle,
- fulgurate,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- give light,
- glance,
- glare,
- gleam,
- glint,
- glitter,
- glow,
- gorgeousness,
- gouge,
- hoodwink,
- hypnotize,
- impress,
- incandesce,
- intrigue,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- loudness,
- luridness,
- luster,
- magnificence,
- make a figure,
- make a show,
- make a splash,
- make blind,
- maze,
- meretriciousness,
- mesmerize,
- mist,
- mix up,
- moider,
- muddle,
- obscure,
- obtrusiveness,
- overwhelm,
- panache,
- paralyze,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- petrify,
- pother,
- put out,
- radiate,
- raise hell,
- rattle,
- ruffle,
- send out rays,
- sensationalism,
- shamelessness,
- shine,
- shine brightly,
- shoot,
- shoot out rays,
- showiness,
- snow-blind,
- sparkle,
- spellbind,
- splash,
- splendor,
- splurge,
- sportiness,
- stagger,
- startle,
- strike blind,
- strike dead,
- strike dumb,
- strike with wonder,
- stun,
- stupefy,
- surprise,
- tawdriness,
- throw into confusion,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- vulgarness
- ostentation
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- pretentious or showy or vulgar display
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- a gaudy outward display related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- arabesque,
- arrantness,
- attitudinizing,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- boldness,
- cheating,
- chinoiserie,
- color,
- coloring,
- conspicuousness,
- convolution,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- elaborateness,
- elegance,
- enactment,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exposition,
- exposure,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanciness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fineness,
- flagrance,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flaunting,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- high relief,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriousness,
- magniloquence,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- moresque,
- noticeability,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- obtrusiveness,
- opening,
- orotundity,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outstandingness,
- outward show,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overornamentation,
- parade,
- performance,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- production,
- projection,
- prominence,
- pronouncedness,
- prose run mad,
- representation,
- retrospective,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- richness,
- rococo,
- salience,
- saliency,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- showing,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- stiltedness,
- strikingness,
- strong relief,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unveiling,
- varnish,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage,
- window dressing
- convolution
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- the action of coiling or twisting or winding together related words >
- Barnumism,
- aduncity,
- affectation,
- aquilinity,
- arachnoid,
- arbor vitae,
- arching,
- archipallium,
- arcuation,
- bedizenment,
- between brain,
- big talk,
- brain stem,
- cerebellar hemispheres,
- cerebellum,
- cerebral cortex,
- cerebrospinal fluid,
- cerebrum,
- circularity,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- concameration,
- concavity,
- convexity,
- corpus callosum,
- corpus striatum,
- crabbedness,
- crookedness,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curving,
- curvity,
- decurvation,
- decurvature,
- diencephalon,
- dura mater,
- endbrain,
- entanglement,
- excurvation,
- excurvature,
- fissure,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- folia,
- forebrain,
- fornix,
- frontal lobe,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- glial cells,
- globus pallidus,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- gray matter,
- gyrus,
- high-flown diction,
- hindbrain,
- hippocampus,
- hookedness,
- hypothalamus,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurvity,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- involution,
- involvement,
- lenticular nucleus,
- lexiphanicism,
- limbic lobe,
- little brain,
- lobe,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mantle,
- medulla oblongata,
- meninges,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- mesencephalon,
- metencephalon,
- midbrain,
- myelencephalon,
- neopallium,
- occipital lobe,
- optic chiasm,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- pallium,
- parietal lobe,
- perplexity,
- pia mater,
- pineal body,
- pituitary body,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pons,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- ramification,
- recurvation,
- recurvature,
- recurvity,
- reticular system,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- rhombencephalon,
- rondure,
- rotundity,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- stiltedness,
- subthalamus,
- subtlety,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- telencephalon,
- temporal lobe,
- thalamus,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- vaulting,
- ventricle,
- vermis,
- white matter
- rhetoric
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- study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
- using language effectively to please or persuade related words >
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- articulateness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- bluster,
- bombast,
- choice of words,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- composition,
- convolution,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- dialect,
- diction,
- effective style,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- exaggeration,
- expression,
- expression of ideas,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- forensics,
- form of speech,
- formulation,
- fulsomeness,
- fustian,
- garishness,
- gasconade,
- gaudiness,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- grace of expression,
- grammar,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- graphicness,
- high-flown diction,
- highfalutin,
- homiletics,
- hot air,
- idiom,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- language,
- lecturing,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- locution,
- loftiness,
- long-windedness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- meaningfulness,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- oratory,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- parlance,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- platform oratory,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prolixity,
- prose run mad,
- public speaking,
- puffery,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoricalness,
- rodomontade,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- sesquipedality,
- showiness,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- smoothness,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- stump speaking,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- talk,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- vein,
- verbiage,
- verbosity,
- vividness,
- way,
- windiness,
- wordage,
- wordcraft,
- wordiness,
- wording
- gaiety
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- a festive merry feeling
- a gay feeling related words >
- Technicolor,
- animal spirits,
- animation,
- beatification,
- beatitude,
- bewitchment,
- blatancy,
- blessedness,
- bliss,
- blissfulness,
- blitheness,
- bravery,
- brazenness,
- bright color,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- buoyancy,
- capersomeness,
- celebration,
- cheer,
- cheerfulness,
- cheeriness,
- chiffon,
- clinquant,
- cloud nine,
- color,
- colorfulness,
- coltishness,
- conviviality,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- delectation,
- delight,
- ecstasy,
- ecstatics,
- elan,
- elation,
- enchantment,
- entertainment,
- esprit,
- exaltation,
- exhilaration,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- exuberance,
- exultation,
- felicity,
- festivity,
- festoons,
- finery,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- friskiness,
- frolicsomeness,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gamesomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- gayness,
- geniality,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gingerbread,
- gladness,
- glare,
- glee,
- glitter,
- good cheer,
- good spirits,
- gorgeousness,
- gusto,
- happiness,
- heartiness,
- heaven,
- high spirits,
- hilarity,
- holiday-making,
- hoopla,
- intensity,
- intoxication,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- joie de vivre,
- jollification,
- jollity,
- joviality,
- joy,
- joyance,
- joyfulness,
- joyousness,
- jubilation,
- larking,
- life,
- liveliness,
- loudness,
- luridness,
- mafficking,
- meretriciousness,
- merriment,
- merrymaking,
- mirth,
- mirthfulness,
- obtrusiveness,
- overhappiness,
- overjoyfulness,
- panache,
- paradise,
- paste,
- pinchbeck,
- piss and vinegar,
- playfulness,
- pleasantness,
- pleasure,
- pure color,
- racketing,
- radiance,
- rapture,
- ravishment,
- rejoicing,
- revel,
- reveling,
- revelment,
- revelry,
- revels,
- richness,
- rollicksomeness,
- rompishness,
- saturation,
- sensationalism,
- seventh heaven,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- skittishness,
- skylarking,
- spirit,
- spiritedness,
- spirits,
- sportiness,
- sportiveness,
- sprightliness,
- sunshine,
- superfluity,
- tawdriness,
- tinsel,
- transport,
- trappings,
- trickery,
- trumpery,
- unalloyed happiness,
- verve,
- vigor,
- vim,
- vitality,
- vivacity,
- vividness,
- vulgarness,
- whoopee,
- winsomeness,
- zest,
- zestfulness,
- zip
- pretension
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- a false or unsupportable quality
- the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort" related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- ambitions,
- ambitiousness,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- aspiration,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- guise,
- handle,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- lexiphanicism,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- orotundity,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretending,
- pretense,
- pretensions,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- prose run mad,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- refuge,
- representation,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stiltedness,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- title,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
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