[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being elaborate.
1694. Echard, Plautus, Pref. His [Terence’s] extream Closeness and great Elaborateness.
1779. Johnson, L. P., Wks. 1816, X. 167. The ‘Old Bachelor’ … is … composed with great elaborateness of dialogue.
1874. Carpenter, Ment. Phys., I. ii. § 3 (1879), 99. For they are further remarkable for the elaborateness of their internal structure.
