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lavishness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lavishness has 2 senses
- lavishness(n = noun.attribute) luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness - the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive; Array is a kind of expensiveness
- lavishness(n = noun.act) extravagance, high life, highlife, prodigality - excessive spending; Array is a kind of dissipation, waste, wastefulness
Derived forms adjective lavish1, adjective lavish2
Derived form adjective lavish1
THESAURUS
lavishness
Babylonian splendor, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, brilliance, bumper crop, carpe diem, conspicuous consumption, copiousness, deluge, dissipation, elaborateness, elegance, embarras de richesses, enough, extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, fertility, flood, flow, foison, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glory, gorgeousness, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, great abundance, great plenty, gush, imposingness, impressiveness, incontinence, intemperance, inundation, landslide, leaking purse, liberality, liberalness, loose purse strings, lots, luxuriance, luxuriousness, luxury, magnificence, majesty, maximum, money to burn, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, nobility, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdoing, overdose, overflow, overgenerosity, overgenerousness, overlavishness, overliberality, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, oversufficiency, oversupply, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, plushness, poshness, pound-foolishness, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, proudness, quantities, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, redundancy, repleteness, repletion, resplendence, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, ritziness, scads, shower, spate, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendor, squander, squandering, squandermania, state, stateliness, stream, substantiality, substantialness, sumptuousness, superabundance, superflux, teemingness, waste, wastefulness, wealth
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