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- Gongorism
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- chinoiserie
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- a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned related words >
- euphemism
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- an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive related words >
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- amelioration,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- cushioning,
- elegance,
- euphuism,
- exquisiteness,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- hyperelegance,
- indirect,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- mild,
- mitigation,
- mollification,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantry,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- precisianism,
- pretentiousness,
- purism,
- substitution,
- unnaturalness,
- vague
- preciosity
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- the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined related words >
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- ceremonialism,
- elegance,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exquisiteness,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- hyperelegance,
- legalism,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantism,
- pedantry,
- preciousness,
- preciseness,
- precisianism,
- pretentiousness,
- punctilio,
- punctiliousness,
- purism,
- ritualism,
- scrupulousness,
- unnaturalness
- elaborateness
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- marked by elaborately complex detail related words >
- Babylonian splendor,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- brilliance,
- chinoiserie,
- elegance,
- fanciness,
- fineness,
- flamboyance,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- floweriness,
- glory,
- gorgeousness,
- grandeur,
- grandiosity,
- grandness,
- imposingness,
- impressiveness,
- lavishness,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- magnificence,
- majesty,
- moresque,
- nobility,
- ostentation,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overornamentation,
- plushness,
- poshness,
- proudness,
- resplendence,
- richness,
- ritziness,
- rococo,
- splendidness,
- splendiferousness,
- splendor,
- state,
- stateliness,
- sumptuousness
- euphuism
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- an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
- any artificially elegant style of language related words >
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- asiaticism,
- device,
- elegance,
- euphemism,
- exquisiteness,
- figurative language,
- figurativeness,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- floridity,
- flourish,
- flower,
- flowery style,
- formalism,
- formality,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- hyperelegance,
- image,
- imagery,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- nonliterality,
- nonliteralness,
- ornament,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- pedantry,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- precisianism,
- pretentiousness,
- purism,
- purple passage,
- trope,
- turn of expression,
- unnaturalness,
- way of speaking
- 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
- rococo
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- fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
- having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror" related words >
- Gothic,
- arabesque,
- archaic,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- bizarre,
- brain-born,
- busy,
- bygone,
- chichi,
- chinoiserie,
- dated,
- deformed,
- dream-built,
- elaborate,
- elaborateness,
- elegance,
- elegant,
- extravagant,
- fanciful,
- fanciness,
- fancy,
- fancy-born,
- fancy-built,
- fancy-woven,
- fantasque,
- fantastic,
- fine,
- fineness,
- flamboyance,
- flamboyant,
- florid,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- floweriness,
- flowery,
- freak,
- freakish,
- frilly,
- fussy,
- grotesque,
- high-wrought,
- labored,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- luxuriousness,
- maggoty,
- malformed,
- misbegotten,
- misshapen,
- moldy,
- monstrous,
- moresque,
- moth-eaten,
- notional,
- old hat,
- ornate,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious,
- outdated,
- outlandish,
- overelaborate,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overornamentation,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- passe,
- picturesque,
- preposterous,
- pretty-pretty,
- rich,
- richness,
- teratogenic,
- teratoid,
- whimsical,
- wild
- arabesque
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- an ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate design
- position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose related words >
- acciaccatura,
- appoggiatura,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- basketry,
- basketwork,
- cadence,
- cadenza,
- cancellation,
- chinoiserie,
- coloratura,
- cross-hatching,
- crossing-out,
- division,
- elaborateness,
- elegance,
- embellishment,
- fanciness,
- filigree,
- fineness,
- fioritura,
- flamboyance,
- flight,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- fret,
- fretwork,
- grace,
- grace note,
- grate,
- grating,
- grid,
- gridiron,
- grille,
- grillwork,
- hachure,
- hatching,
- incidental,
- incidental note,
- interlacement,
- intertexture,
- intertwinement,
- lace,
- lacery,
- lacework,
- lacing,
- lattice,
- latticework,
- long mordent,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriousness,
- mesh,
- meshes,
- meshwork,
- mordent,
- moresque,
- net,
- netting,
- network,
- ornament,
- ostentation,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overornamentation,
- passage,
- plexure,
- plexus,
- pralltriller,
- raddle,
- reticle,
- reticulation,
- reticule,
- reticulum,
- richness,
- riddle,
- rococo,
- roulade,
- run,
- screen,
- screening,
- sieve,
- single mordent,
- texture,
- tissue,
- tracery,
- trellis,
- trelliswork,
- turn,
- wattle,
- weave,
- weaving,
- web,
- webbing,
- webwork,
- weft,
- wicker,
- wickerwork
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- aroma,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- attribute,
- badge,
- brand,
- cachet,
- cast,
- character,
- characteristic,
- command of language,
- configuration,
- cut,
- differentia,
- differential,
- distinctive feature,
- earmark,
- eccentricity,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- facade,
- false front,
- false show,
- fashion,
- feature,
- feeling for words,
- feigned belief,
- figure,
- flavor,
- form of speech,
- front,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- gust,
- habit,
- hallmark,
- hyperelegance,
- hypocrisy,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- image,
- impress,
- impression,
- index,
- individualism,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- keynote,
- lineaments,
- literary style,
- lugs,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mark,
- marking,
- mere show,
- minauderie,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- mold,
- nature,
- oddness,
- odor,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- particularity,
- peculiar trait,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- property,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- purism,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- quality,
- queerness,
- quirk,
- rhetoric,
- savor,
- seal,
- sense of language,
- sham,
- shape,
- show,
- singularity,
- smack,
- specialty,
- stamp,
- strain,
- style,
- stylishness,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- taint,
- tang,
- taste,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- token,
- trademark,
- trait,
- trick,
- trick of behavior,
- unnaturalness,
- vein,
- way
- artfulness
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- the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage related words >
- Gongorism,
- Italian hand,
- ability,
- acuteness,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airmanship,
- animal cunning,
- art,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- artisanship,
- artistry,
- astuteness,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- capability,
- capacity,
- cleverness,
- command,
- competence,
- control,
- coordination,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- craftsmanship,
- credibility gap,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deftness,
- deviousness,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- diplomacy,
- disingenuousness,
- duplicity,
- efficiency,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- expertise,
- facility,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- forswearing,
- foxiness,
- fraud,
- furtiveness,
- gamesmanship,
- grace,
- grip,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- handiness,
- horsemanship,
- hyperelegance,
- hypocrisy,
- indirection,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- know-how,
- low cunning,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- one-upmanship,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- pawkiness,
- perjury,
- practical ability,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretentiousness,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- purism,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- sharp practice,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- style,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- surreptitiousness,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technique,
- timing,
- treacherousness,
- trickiness,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- underhandedness,
- unfrankness,
- unnaturalness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- virtuosity,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship
- 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
- elegance
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- a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility"
- a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics); "the simplicity and elegance of his invention" related words >
- Babylonian splendor,
- acquired taste,
- amenities,
- appreciation of excellence,
- arabesque,
- attractiveness,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- beauteousness,
- beautifulness,
- beauty,
- beauty unadorned,
- bloom,
- breeding,
- brilliance,
- charm,
- cheeseparing,
- chic,
- chinoiserie,
- choiceness,
- civilities,
- civility,
- civilized taste,
- civilizedness,
- clothes-consciousness,
- comity,
- convention,
- courtliness,
- coxcombry,
- cultivated taste,
- cultivation,
- culture,
- daintiness,
- dandyism,
- decencies,
- decency,
- decorousness,
- decorum,
- delicacy,
- dignity,
- diplomatic code,
- discrimination,
- ease,
- economy,
- economy of assumption,
- economy of means,
- elaborateness,
- elegancies,
- etiquette,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- excellence,
- exquisite manners,
- exquisiteness,
- facility,
- fanciness,
- fastidiousness,
- fineness,
- finesse,
- flamboyance,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flow,
- floweriness,
- fluency,
- foppery,
- foppishness,
- formalism,
- formalities,
- formality,
- frugality,
- genteelness,
- gentility,
- gentlemanlikeness,
- gentlemanliness,
- gentleness,
- glory,
- glow,
- good breeding,
- good form,
- good manners,
- good taste,
- goody-goodness,
- goody-goodyism,
- gorgeousness,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- graciosity,
- graciousness,
- grandeur,
- grandiosity,
- grandness,
- handsomeness,
- imposingness,
- impressiveness,
- jauntiness,
- ladylikeness,
- lavishness,
- law of parsimony,
- loveliness,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- magnificence,
- majesty,
- manners,
- modesty,
- mores,
- moresque,
- nattiness,
- natural politeness,
- neatness,
- niceness,
- nicety,
- nobility,
- ostentation,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overornamentation,
- overpreciseness,
- overrefinement,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- pedantry,
- pinching,
- plushness,
- poetry,
- point of etiquette,
- polish,
- politeness,
- politesse,
- poshness,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- precisianism,
- prettiness,
- proprieties,
- propriety,
- protocol,
- proudness,
- pudency,
- pudicity,
- pulchritude,
- punctilio,
- purism,
- quality,
- quiet good manners,
- refinement,
- resplendence,
- richness,
- ritziness,
- rococo,
- rules of conduct,
- scrimping,
- seemliness,
- shame,
- sharpness,
- skimping,
- sleekness,
- smartness,
- smoothness,
- social code,
- social conduct,
- social graces,
- social procedures,
- social usage,
- sophistication,
- spiffiness,
- splendidness,
- splendiferousness,
- splendor,
- state,
- stateliness,
- stinting,
- style,
- subtlety,
- sumptuousness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- the beautiful,
- trimness
- affectation
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- a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display related words >
- Barnumism,
- Gongorism,
- act,
- acting,
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affectedness,
- air,
- airs,
- appearance,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- bearing,
- bedizenment,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- big talk,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- carriage,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- command of language,
- comportment,
- conduct,
- convolution,
- culture pattern,
- custom,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demeanor,
- deportment,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- doings,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- folkway,
- form of speech,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gestures,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- goings-on,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- guise,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hyperelegance,
- imposture,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- loftiness,
- lugs,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- maintien,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- manners,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- modus vivendi,
- motions,
- movements,
- moves,
- observable behavior,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outward show,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- pattern,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- poise,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- port,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- posturing,
- practice,
- praxis,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- presence,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- prose run mad,
- purism,
- representation,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- social science,
- speciousness,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tactics,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- tone,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vein,
- way,
- way of life,
- ways,
- window dressing
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