flamboyance
Ostentatious display style
Flamboyance is showy, dramatic style—behavior, dress, or manner designed to attract attention.
The word suggests boldness and confidence rather than quiet taste: His flamboyance made him impossible to ignore at parties.
It can carry admiration or disapproval depending on context, praising someone's flair or criticizing excess.
Vulgar flaunting of means
- flashinessOstentatious showiness
- gaudinessTasteless, excessive ornamentation
- garishnessExcessive, tasteless brightness
- glitzOstentatious showiness
pizzazz · razzle-dazzle · panache · swagger · swank · spectacle · splashiness · fanciness
Showy, abundant prosperity
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- sumptuousnessExtreme costly elegance
- excessSurplus beyond need
- grandiosityExaggerated sense of importance
pomp · splurge · decadence · luxury · profligacy · immoderation · richness · plushness
Animals gathered together
Quality of bright hues
- vividnessIntense clarity or lifelikeness
- brillianceExceptional intelligence or luster
- radianceGlowing luminous quality
- dazzleImpress through radiance
iridescence · luminosity · resplendence · incandescence · luster · shimmer · sparkle · boldness
ostentation
Vulgar flaunting of means
- flashinessOstentatious showiness
- gaudinessTasteless, excessive ornamentation
- garishnessExcessive, tasteless brightness
glitz · pizzazz · razzle-dazzle · panache · swagger · swank · spectacle · splashiness · fanciness · ornateness
opulence
Showy, abundant prosperity
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- sumptuousnessExtreme costly elegance
- excessSurplus beyond need
grandiosity · pomp · splurge · decadence · luxury · profligacy · immoderation · richness · plushness · magnificence
flock
Animals gathered together
tropical · feathers · colony · courtship · lagoon · display · preening
colorfulness
Quality of bright hues
- vividnessIntense clarity or lifelikeness
- brillianceExceptional intelligence or luster
- radianceGlowing luminous quality
dazzle · iridescence · luminosity · resplendence · incandescence · luster · shimmer · sparkle · boldness · saturation
- collective nounsflock, herd, school, pack, swarm
- tackinesstackiness, gaudiness, garishness, tawdriness, trashiness
- theatricstheatrics, dramatics, melodrama, histrionics, theatricality
- bombastbombast, grandiloquence, magniloquence, pomposity, fustian
- Glam RockT. Rex, David Bowie, Sweet, glitter, platform boots
- camphigh camp, kitsch, theatricality, exaggeration, over-the-top
flamboyanceplainness
Unadorned, straightforward quality
simplicity · austerity · minimalism · understatement · restraint
flamboyancemodesty
Absence of vanity
restraint · demureness · reserve · self-effacement · understatement