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Gaudiness vs Frumpery - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between gaudiness and frumpery

is that gaudiness is pretension in appearance; looking overly done and distastefully adorned while frumpery is frumpish appearance or behaviour.

gaudiness

English

Noun

(-)
  • Pretension in appearance; looking overly done and distastefully adorned.
  • :Nearby residents don't want any gaudiness in the building's renovation, they want it to be tasteful and understated.

    • Related terms

    * gaudy

    frumpery

    English

    Noun

  • Frumpish appearance or behaviour.
  • * 2005 , Sharon Grehan, Random Acts of Malice (page 56)
    • Ladies of yesteryear toured world capitals in sedate linen dresses, but such priggish frumpery hardly presents Americans as the carefree, egalitarian, and sensuous people the viewers of dubbed Baywatch episodes have come to expect.