flamboyantness
nounEtymology From flamboyant + -ness.
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The quality of being flamboyant.
- I beg that grave note be taken of this just condemnation of the essential character—“the flamboyant”ness—of the architecture which up to this time I had chiefly, and most affectionately, studied.1880, John Ruskin, “The Lamp of Truth”, in The Seven Lamps of Architecture, new edition, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, page 63:
- OUR stock is CLEAN; all late BUY and well kept. This is the store of the BETTER CLASS with no FLAMBOYANTNESS in EVIDENCE.1922 January 11, J. M. McKee and Company, “Hold Your Money and Wait for This Sale”, in The Statesville Sentinel, volume XIX, number 5, Statesville, N.C.:
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- The flamboyantness of a professional writer does creep in now and then[…].1966, Field Notes: Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society, page 4:
- It seemed for a moment as if the effervescent flamboyant[-]ness of Miss Corelli faded before the six-foot tall command of the statuesque Clara Butt.1966, Ursula Bloom, Rosemary for Stratford-on-Avon, London: Robert Hale, page 84:
- Science prides itself on being proper and precise, and any type of flamboyantness is looked upon with distrust.1971, “Cultural Definitions of the Female Professional”, in Athena Theodore, editor, The Professional Woman, Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company, Inc., page 139:
- But the ease and un-flamboyantness of these similes owes to their yoking of near neighbors in the natural world.1973, The Mississippi Quarterly, page 641:
- Synonyms
- flamboyance, flamboyancy