gaudiness
121ornamentation — n 1. adornment, embellishment. See ornament(def. 4). 2. finery, frippery, frilliness, frills, frills and furbelows, folderol, trumpery, gaudery, fuss, Inf. foo faraw, Sl. jazz; ostentation, meretriciousness, flamboyance, showiness, show,… …
122pomposity — n 1. pompousness, haughtiness, hauteur, arrogance, self importance, pontification, Inf. stuffiness; pretension, pretentiousness, affectation, airs, attitudinizing, posing, Inf. highfalutin ways; vainglory, vanity, pride, foppery, dandyism,… …
123pretense — n 1. pretending, feigning, faking, simulation; make believe, fantasy, fabrication, concoction, invention, creation; figment, fiction, fable; false show, semblance, appearance, guise, color; disguise, camouflage, masquerade, mask, veil, cloak,… …
124richness — n 1. wealthiness, affluence, opulence, prosperousness. See riches. 2. luxuriousness, lushness, lavishness, sump tuousness; splendidness, resplendence, Inf. splen diferousness, gorgeousness, magnificence, grandness, grandiosity. 3. vividness,… …
125tinsel — n 1. spangle, clinquant, metallic yarn. 2. ostentation, show, gilding, frippery, affectation, Archaic. frounce; falseness, unreality, make believe, pinchbeck, sham, hypocrisy; pretentiousness, Sl. dog, airs, artificiality, pretension; pomp,… …
126gaudy — I. /ˈgɔdi / (say gawdee) adjective (gaudier, gaudiest) 1. brilliant; excessively showy. 2. showy without taste; vulgarly showy; flashy. {originally attributive use of gaudy2 large bead of rosary, feast; later taken as from gaud (noun) –gaudily,… …
127frippery — [n] waste, nonsense adornment, bauble, decoration, fanciness, fandangle*, flashiness, frill, fussiness, gaudiness, knickknack, meretriciousness, ornament, ostentation, pretentiousness, showiness, tawdriness, toy, trinket; concepts 655,824 Ant.… …
128glitter — [n] brilliance, sparkle beam, brightness, coruscation, display, flash, gaudiness, glamour, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glister, glitz, luster, pageantry, radiance, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, show, showiness, splendor, tinsel, twinkle …
