garishnessn.
/ˈɡɛːrɪʃnɪs/ 1. Excessive display or brilliancy in dress, colour, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [noun]
finesse1549
garishness1598
gaudiness1601
finery1656
glare1706
snobbery1843
flauntiness1854
flashiness1855
shoddyism1865
loudness1881
obtrusiveness1881
floridity1883
flashness1885
orchidacity1897
pizzazz1937
neon1958
snazziness1961
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun]
boast1297
strut1303
bombancec1325
bobantc1330
bobancec1380
ambitionc1384
oliprancec1390
pretence?a1439
ostentationa1475
pransawtea1500
bravity1546
finesse1549
bravery1573
overlashing1579
brave1596
peacockry1596
garishness1598
maggot ostentation1598
ostent1609
flaunta1625
spectability1637
vantation1637
fastuousness1649
fastuosity1656
finery1656
parade1656
phantastry1656
ostentatiousness1658
éclat1704
pretension1706
braw1724
swell1724
showiness1730
ostensibility1775
fanfaronade1784
display1816
showing off1822
glimmer1827
tigerism1836
peacockery1844
show-off1846
flare1847
peacockism1854
swank1854
tigerishness1869
flashness1888
flamboyance1891
peacockishness1892
flamboyancy1896
swankiness1920
plushness1949
glitziness1982
fantasia-
fantastication-
1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 56 Marshalling your bodies pride, thereby to attract more gazers on your garishnesse.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 257 The Garishness of whores and the pranking up themselves to allure.
1814 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 38 213 Time, and smoke..will eventually sift a vaporous powder over the picture, and then subdue its garishness of hue.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness
giddinessa1290
lightnessc1384
gerishnessa1513
fantasticnessc1550
unstaidnessa1557
fantasticalness1583
triflingnessa1586
spleen1598
capriciousness1607
skittishness1607
humorousness1611
wavinga1628
volageness1633
arbitrariness1643
garishness1649
legerity1652
mercury1653
volatility1655
caprich1656
humoursomeness1662
hoity-toity1668
jollity1670
unaccountableness1676
freak1678
whimsya1680
featheriness1689
toysomeness1697
caprice1711
whimsicalness1715
flirtation1718
whima1721
flightiness1747
whimsicality1761
giggishness1781
fancifulness1818
hoity-toityness1820
whifflery1835
crotchetiness1837
quirkiness1870
faddishness1884
faddism1885
vagarity1886
erraticism1889
whimsiness1909
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. §12. 57 Lest the lavishnesse of his spirit should transport him to intemperance..to vanity, and garishnesse.
1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xii. 154 By a prosperous accident [we] are melted into joy and garishnesse, and drawn off from the sobriety of recollection.
a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1694) II. iii. 13 And, possibly, gray hairs may have nothing under them but garishness and folly many years old.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) IX. 157 That pride and garishness of temper, that renders it impatient of the sobrieties of virtue.
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