Sumptuosity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sumptuosity is a noun meaning The state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price.
Meaning
The state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price.
Example Sentences
Macedon may justly be called to witness, who found more cities and sumptuosity in that little kingdom of Porus […] than in all his other travels and undertakings.
Sumptuosity and sordidness; revenge, life-weariness, ambition, darkness, putrescence; and, say, in sterling money, three hundred thousand a year,—were this poor Prince once to burst loose from his Court-moorings, to what regions, with what phenomena, might he not sail and drift!
Word Forms
- sumptuosities
Synonyms for sumptuosity
Depending on context, synonyms include luxury, sumptuousness, lavishness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sumptuousness, lavishness, luxury, luxe, voluptuosity, luxuriousness.
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