floridness
(ˈflɒrɪdnɪs)
[f. florid a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being florid; exuberant freshness or liveliness, brightness of ruddy hue; lavishness of ornamentation.
| 1661 Feltham Resolves ii. lxx. 337 Some of the Ancient Grecians..deriving it [dancing] from the Amœnity and Floridness of the warm and spirited bloud. 1664 Evelyn Sylva (1776) 631 Allured it is likely by the..Floridness of the leaves. 1769 Wesley Jrnl. 2 July, Her language is..simple, without..affected floridness. 1776 Priestley in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 231 The floridness of the arterial blood. 1830 Fraser's Mag. I. 8 Refinement..tames down the floridness..of the imagination. 1842 Ibid. XXVI. 639 A clustering floridness sometimes conceals a flaw in the pillars. 1889 Bruce Plant. Negro 153 The man of ripe years has all the mental floridness of a boy. |