expressive style vs ornateness

ornateness vs expressive style

expressive style and ornateness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
ornateness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ornateness is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, ornateness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expressive style:

expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
ornateness: high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, prose, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	ornateness (noun)
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period	an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
	high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

Difference between expressive style and ornateness

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