n.
The quality or state of being lavish.
lavishness
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noun
- Excessive or imprudent expenditure: extravagance, extravagancy, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, squander, waste, wastefulness. See careful/careless, save/waste.
- The quality or state of being generous: big-heartedness, bounteousness, bountifulness, freehandedness, generosity, generousness, great-heartedness, large-heartedness, liberality, magnanimity, magnanimousness, munificence, openhandedness, unselfishness, unsparingness. See give/take/reciprocity.
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The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive
Synonyms: luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness
Meaning #2:
excessive spending
Synonyms: extravagance, prodigality, highlife, high life
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