ornamentalityn.

1842 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 152 Her picture..looks very fine indeed in its gilt ornamentality.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. xix. 369 This doubled wish..first set the poor man on thinking of expensive ornamentalities.

1889 G. B. Shaw in L. Crompton Great Composers (1978) II. 124 All that dreary fugue manufacture, with its Sunday-school sentimentalities and its Music-school ornamentalities.

1963 MLN 78 29 Modern criticism is indebted to Tesauro for having seen, on a theoretical plane, that Marino's poetry is not an empty poetry of strict ornamentality.

1994 Slavic Rev. 53 675 His own poetics combines factual reporting, harsh to the point of shocking cynicism, with the whimsical ornamentality of its linguistic and narrative dressing.