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elaborateness

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e·lab·o·rate  (-lbr-t)
adj.
1. Planned or executed with painstaking attention to numerous parts or details.
2. Intricate and rich in detail.
v. (-lb-rt) e·lab·o·rat·ed, e·lab·o·rat·ing, e·lab·o·rates
v.tr.
1. To work out with care and detail; develop thoroughly.
2. To produce by effort; create.
v.intr.
1. To become elaborate.
2. To express at greater length or in greater detail: asked me to elaborate on my proposal.

[Latin labrtus, past participle of labrre, to work out : -, ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + labrre, to work (from labor, work).]

e·labo·rate·ly adv.
e·labo·rate·ness n.
e·labo·ration n.
e·labo·rator n.
Synonyms: elaborate, complicated, intricate
These adjectives mean marked by complexity of detail: an elaborate lace pattern; the eye, a complicated organ; an intricate problem.
Antonym: simple
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.elaborateness - marked by elaborately complex detail
complexity, complexness - the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers"
2.elaborateness - an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
appearance, visual aspect - outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
flamboyance, floridity, floridness, showiness - extravagant elaborateness; "he wrote with great flamboyance"
fussiness - unnecessary elaborateness in details


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Strange as it seems in the author of these masterpieces of frank realism, Jonson at the same time was showing himself the most gifted writer of the Court masks, which now, arrived at the last period of their evolution, were reaching the extreme of spectacular elaborateness.
It is wonderful with what elaborateness this simple fact is advertised -- this piscine murder will out -- and from my distant perch I distinguish the circling undulations when they are half a dozen rods in diameter.
 
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