Associations to the word «Embellishment»

Wiktionary

EMBELLISHMENT, noun. An unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.

Dictionary definition

EMBELLISHMENT, noun. Elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings".
EMBELLISHMENT, noun. A superfluous ornament.
EMBELLISHMENT, noun. The act of adding extraneous decorations to something.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin