elaborateness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From elaborate + -ness.

Under Louis XIV and Louis XV the elaborateness of the French garden was even more an accentuated epitome of the tastes of the period. — Royal Palaces and Parks of France, M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
She’s a Catholic, and they don’t believe in divorce.” Daisy was not a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. — The Great Gatsby, F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
The building which we had entered was one of great size and elaborateness, and gave us an impressive notion of the architecture of that nameless geologic past. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

elaboration, intricacy, involution

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