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Noun: grandiosity  `grandee'ósitee
  1. High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    "the grandiosity of his prose"
    - magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric

Derived forms: grandiosities

See also: grandiose

Type of: expressive style, style

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Grandma Moses
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