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elaborateness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of elaborateness

the state or quality of having many interrelated parts or aspects

  • the elaborateness of the parade is such that a virtual army of people spend the whole year working on it
Synonyms of elaborateness

complexity, complexness, complicacy, complicatedness, complication, intricacy, intricateness, involution, knottiness, sophistication
Words Related to elaborateness

diversity, heterogeneity, heterogeneousness, multifariousness

impenetrability, incomprehensibility, inexplicability
Near Antonyms of elaborateness

simplification

homogeneity, uniformity
Antonyms of elaborateness

plainness, simpleness, simplicity

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