Adjective : a florid complexion. ,florid writing.    From Dictionary.com. 

Some of his coinages “realpolitiking consiglieri” taken in isolation may be considered aptly descriptive turns of phrase and felicitous creations , but the cumulative effect is floridness with no apparent purpose, and therefore bathos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grokking the Subaqueous Consigliere John Clute] Reference

The other had a great deal of health and floridness in her countenance, which she had helped with an artificial white and red; and she endeavoured to appear more graceful than ordinary in her mien, by a mixture of affectation in all her gestures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

This is pretty good alliteration, but fancy phrasing does not a good burrito make, and to be honest, the only real basis on which to judge a burrito is the quality of the burrito itself, not by the floridness of a particular restaurant critic's review.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Maxwell Apter: NYC Burrito Challenge III: Dos Toros Taquería] Reference

The redundancy and floridness of its style make it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"] Reference

How the floridness of the materials of cities shrivels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference

It had its faults, of course -- floridness, pomposity, too much histrionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet Again] Reference

How the floridness of the materials of cities shrivels before a man's or woman's look!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference

He was short and thick-set, young, quite fair, inclined already to floridness of skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Man's Rock] Reference

How the floridness of the materials of cities shrivels before a man’s or woman’s look!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Song of the Broad-Axe] Reference

To these foreign corpuscles he owes the floridness of his outlook, his conception of the excited Englishman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

Thus modified, the darkness of the veins appears of a pale blue colour, and the floridness of the arteries is changed to a delicate pink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

His rhetoric has been criticized for floridness and sensationalism, but his word pictures held multitudes of people spellbound as in the presence of a master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little] Reference

It was well that Mrs. Dangerfield kept Captain Baster waiting; it gave the purple tinge, which was heightening his floridness somewhat painfully, time to fade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terrible Twins] Reference

The old, worn, faded, carefully polished furniture, for the most part of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, seemed abashed in the presence of his floridness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terrible Twins] Reference

In the hot summer light his floridness seemed heavy and bloated, and but for his erect square-shouldered walk he would have looked like an over-fed and over-dressed old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Innocence] Reference

In spite of the fervor and floridness of some of his expressions of gratitude for favors from his noble friends, Burns was no snob; and it was characteristic of him to give up a visit to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Burns How To Know Him] Reference

Vasilisa Vasena came every morning at seven o'clock; she was a country-woman of about thirty seven, strong, healthy, red-faced, reminiscent of a July day in her floridness and vigorous health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Wilderness] Reference

'All infidel writers drop into oblivion, when personal connections and the floridness of novelty are gone; though now and then a foolish fellow, who thinks he can be witty upon them, may bring them again into notice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Of Johnson]

Though my mind was now serene, and my health sufficiently good, yet the floridness of my complexion was gone, and there was a rudeness in my physiognomy, the consequence of hardship and fortitude, extremely unlike the sleekness of my better days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are] Reference

Is there not a relation between floridness of fancy which passes easily over to delusions (just as creative geniuses are allied to artists), but may there not be an inverse correlation between great liveliness and activity of fancy and liability to fixed delusions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

However much she dwelt upon the effectiveness of Greengay's dash and color and assurance, her mind always came back to Percy's neat little head, his clean-cut face, and warm, clear, gray eyes, and she liked them better than Charley's fullness and blurred floridness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference

Inquiring the reason of so strange a groupe of figures, I was told that it was the humor of an eminent painter, who was preparing a picture for the gallery at Dusseldorp, the subject of which was to be this contrast; and that in order to take his draught from nature, he had given a treat to this rustic company, in the design of exhibiting at one view, the floridness of youth contrasted to the weakness and infirmities of old age, in a moral light, of exposing the impropriety of those matches, in which the objection of a disparity of years should not be duly respected.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on the Art of Dancing] Reference