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sumptuosity

noun

  1. The state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price

    countable, uncountable

    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.

Where it comes from

From sumptuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin sumptuositas: compare French somptuosité.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry sumptuosity (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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