sumptuosity

Questions about sumptuosity

What does sumptuosity mean?

sumptuosity means "the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive".

How many syllables are in sumptuosity?

sumptuosity has 5 syllables and divides as sump-tu-o-si-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sumptuosity?

Close synonyms include lavishness, luxury, sumptuousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sumptuosity a common word?

sumptuosity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.