0 the quality of being very expensive or impressive:
The Medici court in Florence was renowned for the lavishness of its wedding celebrations.
The appearance of the book conveys lavishness, but with elegant restraint.
The film has a lavishness of feeling and characterisation.
The lavishness of the production and the small number of copies issued necessitates a very high price (9,750 euros!).
Depending upon the lavishness of the presentation and the brigata's musical abilities, it might have been necessary to hire a separate group of performers to sing.
I will take one example of the sort of lavishness and extravagance in personnel of which one could multiply instances indefinitely.
If he and many others had to go to the board of guardians for their subsistence, they would soon speak differently about lavishness.
And of course it is a matter of honour to outdo eath other with the lavishness of the meal.