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Floridness

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flor·id  (flôrd, flr-)
adj.
1. Flushed with rosy color; ruddy.
2. Very ornate; flowery: a florid prose style.
3. Archaic Healthy.
4. Obsolete Abounding in or covered with flowers.
[French floride, from Latin flridus, from fls, flr-, flower; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.]
flo·ridi·ty (fl-rd-t, flô-), florid·ness n.
florid·ly adv.
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Noun1.floridness - extravagant elaborateness; "he wrote with great flamboyance"
flamboyance, floridity, showiness
elaborateness, ornateness - an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated


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In the hot summer light his floridness seemed heavy and bloated, and but for his erect square- shouldered walk he would have looked like an over-fed and over-dressed old man.
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