Meaning of GAUDINESS

WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  strident color or excessive ornamentation [n]  tasteless showiness
	Synonyms:		brashness, flashiness, garishness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness
	See Also:		tastelessness, ugliness
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
	Definition:		\Gaud"i*ness\, n. The quality of being gaudy. --Whitlock.
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		affectation, apparent character, appearances, arsenic green, Barnumism, bedizenment, beggarliness, big talk, blatancy, brazenness, cheapness, clashing colors, coarseness, color clash, colorfulness, contemptibleness, convolution, crassness, crudeness, crudity, crumminess, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, despicableness, display, earthiness, exteriors, external appearance, externals, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, facade, flagrancy, flamboyance, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, front, fulsomeness, gaiety, garishness, gaudery, glare, glitter, gorgeousness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, grossness, high-flown diction, inflatedness, inflation, jaundiced yellow, jauntiness, jazziness, lexiphanicism, luridness, magniloquence, meanness, mere externals, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, meritlessness, miserableness, obscenity, obtrusiveness, orotundity, ostent, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, outward appearance, outward show, paltriness, panache, pitiableness, pitifulness, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, poorness, pretension, pretentiousness, prose run mad, public image, rawness, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, sadness, screaming color, sensationalism, sententiousness, shabbiness, shamelessness, shocking pink, shoddiness, show, showiness, sorriness, speciousness, sportiness, stiltedness, superficiality, surface appearance, surface show, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tawdriness, tortuosity, tortuousness, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, unworthiness, vain show, vileness, vulgarness, worthlessness, wretchedness