The word "lavishness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an abundance or extravagance of something. For example: "The lavishness of the wedding decorations was stunning."
With the rapid growth of an urban middle class, mooncakes have become a form of currency, not so much to be eaten (some Chinese confess to disliking them) as to be given with careful thought as to the cost of their ingredients and the lavishness of their packaging.This is especially true if the recipient is a potential favour-giver.
The lavishness of farm subsidies means that the net effect of fully freeing trade would be to raise prices, by an average of 5.5% for primary farm products and 1.3% for processed goods, according to the World Bank.These effects are still much smaller than recent food-price spikes, but would they, on balance, help or hurt the poor?
Three-quarters of cultivated land is unirrigated and dependent on the monsoon whose lavishness last summer is a big factor in the booming year that has followed.Some economists, however, are deeply sceptical.
Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, has championed the causes of getting more women into executive suites and more female students on to computer-science courses.Copy and pasteOther types of companies even the banks will struggle to match the Silicon Valley firms in the lavishness of their compensation and their willingness to pamper their software talent.
According to Polly Toynbee, the lavishness of it all takes your breath away: tall, airy rooms; bright carpets and good wood fittings; gleaming new toys and books, computers, slides and climbing frames.
He does not spare Mr Clinton's sexual recklessness and he is even more severe about the "libidinous crudeness" of his departing lavishness with pardons as "inappropriate", to use Mr Clinton's own weasel word, as his relationship with an adolescent intern.
But the fact that the members of the electoral council overseeing the vote were chosen by Mr Préval has invited suspicion as has the lavishness of the party's campaign for Mr Celestin, which blanketed the country with his smiling, confident mug on billboards, banners and leaflets dropped from airplanes.
The many local celebrations are varied; national festivals, though fewer, are marked with a spirit of unity and lavishness.
Later sumptuary laws were motivated not by military crisis but by a sense of the dangers of luxury: the Orchian law (182) limited the lavishness of banquets; the Fannian law (161) strengthened the Orchian provisions, and the Didian law (143) extended the limits to all Italy.
About that time he began his work on the design and sculptural ornamentation of the facade for the cathedral of Siena which became, in its lavishness and ordering, the model for virtually all future Gothic facade decoration in central Italy.
It wasn't the lavishness of the advance – a pint and a packet of crisps.
