elaborateness
- noun
- /ɪˈlæbəˌreɪtnəs/
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elaboración
- The architect's design was notable for its elaborateness, showcasing intricate details and carefully chosen materials.
Examples
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The town was not especially overcrowded, and the coffins' elaborateness and placement in the crypt suggest that the victims included prominent and affluent citizens.
Academic text (2009) -
Prior to the Communist victory in 1949, the performance of "full-dress" life-cycle rituals was probably restricted to the upper ranges of the middle peasant households and above, and the elaborateness with which the rituals were conducted certainly varied with respect to wealth.
Academic text (1998) -
But it was also, in the elaborateness of its sinister ways, fascinating, elegant even.
Academic text (2011) -
The elaborateness
Fiction book (1995) -
In retrospect, it was the type of elaborateness that signifies a broken paradigm that ought to be replaced.
Blog text (9) -
Again, the intention is to astonish both with the elaborateness of the props and with their fearful appearance and sounds or noises.
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The discourse in illusionist works can even be quite elaborate (e.g., in the handling of discourse-time), as long as it does not foreground this elaborateness, as will be seen in the following.
Academic text (2004) -
The elaborateness of the wedding decorations left all the guests in awe.
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Teachers often admire the elaborateness of students' projects when they go above and beyond basic requirements.
Synonyms
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5.0
Many connected parts make something hard to understand
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6.7
A set of small, detailed parts that make something complex
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4.9
Adding more detail or explanation to something
The quality of being very complex with many small parts
Having many parts or details that are hard to understand
A complicated structure in writing or speech that is hard to follow
The state of having many connected parts that are hard to understand
A thing or style with many decorative details
The use of very fancy, detailed language or style that feels too much
Antonyms
How Elaborate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word elaborateness comes from elaborate, which has the root labor meaning 'work'. So if something has elaborateness, it shows the extra work put into many careful, worked-out details.