elaborateness

elaborateness
elaborate ADJECTIVE involving many carefully arranged parts; detailed and complicated.
VERB 1) develop or present in detail. 2) (elaborate on) add more detail to (something already said).
DERIVATIVES elaborately adverb elaborateness noun elaboration noun elaborative adjective.
ORIGIN from Latin elaborare 'work out' .

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  • Elaborateness — Elaborate E*lab o*rate, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See {Labor}.] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • elaborateness — noun see elaborate I …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • elaborateness — See elaborately. * * * …   Universalium

  • elaborateness — noun a) The state of being elaborate b) Something elaborate …   Wiktionary

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  • elaborateness — e lab·o·rate·ness || nɪs n. quality of being intricately detailed, quality of being complicated; state of being worked out in great detail …   English contemporary dictionary

  • elaborateness — elab·o·rate·ness …   English syllables

  • elaborateness — See: elaborate …   English dictionary

  • elaborateness — noun 1. marked by elaborately complex detail • Syn: ↑elaboration, ↑intricacy, ↑involution • Derivationally related forms: ↑elaborate (for: ↑elaboration), ↑elaborate …   Useful english dictionary

  • austerity — [n1] severity acerbity, asperity, astringence, coldness, exactingness, exactness, formality, formalness, gravity, grimness, hardness, harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, obduracy, rigidity, rigor, seriousness, solemnity, sternness, stiffness,… …   New thesaurus

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