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Showiness vs Frumpery - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between showiness and frumpery

is that showiness is the property of being showy while frumpery is frumpish appearance or behaviour.

showiness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The property of being showy.

    • 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.