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

Talking of floridity, Torchwood drew to a close on Sunday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Widgets and other miscellany « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference

Houghton, he discovered, had none of Walter's ruggedness of build or floridity of complexion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

In imagery, there is that floridity that goes dazzling to the sublime with a brilliancy that is captivating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference

But printing pictures in color, in any medium, was considered a weakening of the fiber -- an excursion into prettification or floridity.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference

The force of eloquence is not merely a train of just and vigorous reasoning, which is not incompatible with dryness; this force requires floridity, striking images, and energetic expressions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

I am wondering if this had something to do with Cranmer's excision of antiphons, given his concern to foreground the scriptural text he felt was lost under the floridity of the medieval chant.    From Wordnik.com.  [A couple of Office/chant books in English] Reference

Then I scoff at the floridity and absurdity of some scrolloping tomb; and the trumpets and the victories and the coats of arms and the certainty, so sonorously repeated, of resurrection, of eternal life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waves] Reference

Howard wrote them in a personalized style that is very post-heroic, is very much a part of a twentieth-century literary tradition which eschews the floridity, gallantry and nobleness of cause associated with the epic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

Hence we all talk; and sometimes we sing too -- choruses of the moment, for the most part, in one of which the depth of our affection for our maternal relative is measured and regulated by the floridity of the roses growing on her porch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917] Reference

The two corridors, monotonously papered in the same grey and faded pattern, seemed to emphasize the dust and dingy floridity of the few early Victorian ornaments, the green rust that devoured the bronze of the lamp, the dull gold that glimmered in the frame of the broken mirror.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

Apuleius are its archaism and its extreme floridity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura] Reference

And now, in her floridity, they were bright and arch and light-grey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

Venice has nothing more satisfyingly ornate: richness without floridity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wanderer in Venice] Reference

Madison belonged, were generally infected by a floridity which made them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865] Reference

Furthermore, we shall see that the Florentines did not purpose to abolish floridity entirely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference

Yet these young reformers had no intention of throwing overboard all the charms of floridity in song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference

But there is always metal beneath its exuberant floridity — the sword of the thyrsus as well as the flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Review of 'Alroy'] Reference

Let us say that she suppressed everything that went beyond grace; that the hint of floridity was abhorrent to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Canaan] Reference

Caccini was somewhat more liberal than Peri in the use of floridity and always showed taste and judgement therein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference

He had very fair hair and blue eyes, and the rose-leaf skin of his mother had in him taken on a masculine floridity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Man's Rock] Reference

Singers will continue to be born into this world who are able to cope with the floridity of this music, for they are born, not made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference

On the other hand we have the grand style, which exemplifies floridity, allusiveness, formal, sometimes abstruse diction, and rhetorical ornament.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference

This oratorio, while containing much of the floridity and repetition of Händel at his worst, is also marked with the erudition and largeness of Händel at his best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference

He seemed generous, and was niggardly, by turns; cultivated suavity; indulged in floridity both of manners and speech; and signed his name so as nobody could read it, though his handwriting was plain enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Gibbie] Reference

Sienese tendency to floridity is answerable for much of this, and that having added some piece of big and bad decoration, the cornice of papal head, for instance, they felt forced to do away with it or continue it throughout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two] Reference

The Persian may be more lenient to floridity ( "No flowers, by request," was, it will be remembered, the first English editor's motto), but in his desire to leave out no one who ought to be in and to do justice to his inclusions he is beyond praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions] Reference

A steamboat station, used almost wholly by visitors, is here, and then a canal, and then the fourteenth-century abbey of S. Gregorio, whose cloisters now form an antiquity store and whose severe and simple apse is such a rebuke to Longhena's Renaissance floridity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wanderer in Venice] Reference

WOMAN'S IONIC FORM: In thus using the word Ionic, De Quincey doubtless has in mind the character of Ionic architecture, with its tall and graceful column, differing from the severity of the Doric on the one hand and from the floridity of the Corinthian on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc] Reference

He saw Roscoe Orlando Gibbons openly gloating over its floridity, and bringing up other members, old and young, to gloat with him; but he thought it more than doubtful whether its dripping lusciousness would prove grateful to the dry mind and sapless person of Oliver Dowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Skylights] Reference

The story never halts, one is never irritated by floridity and gush. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics] Reference

A clear, expressive, gray eye; but now the floridity had given place to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life] Reference

In another project, maybe there will be a call for more…floridity, but for now it’s helping me to shape my verbs, to make them more active.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regimen | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference

Dreams with Sharp Teeth are attributable to how fully it conveys its subject's tone, with all its tangents, floridity, and vitriol, "writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

The Tale of Alroy is a kind of prose opera; the same gorgeousness of scene — the same floridity of sentiment — the same union of music, pageantry, and action, that allure us at the King’s Theatre — dazzle, and sometimes almost fatigue us from their very brilliancy, in the volumes not before us.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Review of 'Alroy'] Reference