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lavishness

noun
/ˈlæv.ɪʃ.nɪs/UK

Etymology

From lavish + -ness. Compare Dutch lafenis (“refreshment, lavishness”).

  1. derived from laven — “to pour out”
  2. derived from lavasse
  3. inherited from laves
  4. suffixed as lavishness — “lavish + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being lavish.

    • No one could question the lavishness of his parties; good taste was a different matter.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lavishness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01lavishness02lavish03bestowing04bestow05honour06honor07excellence08brilliance09magnificence

A definitional loop anchored at lavishness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at lavishness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA