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Meanings of sumptuosity in English

Portuguese
luxo
Catalan
sumptuositat
Spanish
lujo

The quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive.

        luxo
        Synonyms
        Examples for "luxury"
        Examples for "luxury"
        1
        Without Labor, Capital would starve; without Capital, Labor could live in luxury.
        Born Again
        2
        A small group of family owned businesses dominated the luxury fashion industry.
        Radio NZ
        3
        Intelligence must therefore have a purpose; it cannot be an expensive luxury.
        The Red Queen
        4
        I hope such luxury allows me to focus deeply on work .
        The South African
        5
        Large back gardens are a luxury seldom available in a new house.
        The Irish Times
        1
        His lavishness was indiscriminate except in that he entertained only the rich.
        And Even Now
        2
        And you know the lavishness of the big ranches, then and now.
        Island Tales / On the Makaloa Mat
        3
        To all questions as to the surprising lavishness of cost, Diggory replied:
        By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico
        4
        She sheds it on me hourly with a lavishness which scares me.
        Simon the Jester
        5
        The liberal man tends to err in the direction of lavishness.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
        1
        Some of them are almost palatial in size and sumptuousness of arrangement.
        Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
        2
        Her house was magnificent, her private apartments almost stifling in their sumptuousness.
        The Californians
        3
        Garrick took pride in their sumptuousness, in their immaculate, virginal splendour.
        Americans and Others
        4
        The first impression made by the Medici frescoes is their sumptuousness.
        A Wanderer in Florence
        5
        His brother, Chantonnay, reproached him with the sumptuousness and disorder of his establishment.
        The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64
        Usage of sumptuosity in English
        1
        Neither Lyons, Bordeaux, Nantes, can compare with it for sumptuosity.
        In the Heart of the Vosges and Other Sketches by a "Devious Trav...
        2
        Site, sumptuosity, climate, vegetation here attain their acme; so far, indeed, Nice may be pronounced flawless.
        In the Heart of the Vosges and Other Sketches by a "Devious Trav...
        3
        To facilitate matters the two friends progressively modified the sumptuosity of the program they had imposed upon themselves.
        Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
        4
        He was rather a favourite with the regiment, treating the young officers with sumptuosity, and amusing them by his military airs.
        Vanity Fair
        5
        Which will seem a strange doctrine, in these days of gold-nuggets, railway-fortunes, and miraculous, sumptuosities regardless of expense.
        History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for sumptuosity
        Spanish
        lujo
        Sumptuosity through the time