"gaudiness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-gaudiness.wav [US] Forms: gaudinesses [plural]
Etymology: gaudy + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|gaudy|ness}} gaudy + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} gaudiness (countable and uncountable, plural gaudinesses)
  1. Pretension in appearance; looking overly and distastefully adorned. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: gaudy Translations (pretention in appearance): komeilu (Finnish), prameilu (Finnish), pöyhkeily (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-gaudiness-en-noun-0uWdLeid Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

Inflected forms

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