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floridness|ˈflɒrɪdnɪs|
[f. florid a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being florid; exuberant freshness or liveliness, brightness of ruddy hue; lavishness of ornamentation.
1661Feltham Resolves ii. lxx. 337 Some of the Ancient Grecians..deriving it [dancing] from the Amœnity and Floridness of the warm and spirited bloud. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1776) 631 Allured it is likely by the..Floridness of the leaves. 1769Wesley Jrnl. 2 July, Her language is..simple, without..affected floridness. 1776Priestley in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 231 The floridness of the arterial blood. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 8 Refinement..tames down the floridness..of the imagination. 1842Ibid. XXVI. 639 A clustering floridness sometimes conceals a flaw in the pillars. 1889Bruce Plant. Negro 153 The man of ripe years has all the mental floridness of a boy. |