opulency

Noun

opulence (countable and uncountable, plural opulences)

1. Wealth.
2. Abundance, bounty, profusion.
3. Ostentatious display of wealth and luxury; plushness.
   • There in full Opulence a Banker dwelt,
     Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
     His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
     And his proud Fancy held a vaſt Eſtate.1721, John Gay, “A Panegyrical Epiſtle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Goldſmith, near Temple-Bar; Occaſion’d by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Subſcriptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thouſand...