Extravagance definition

ĭk-străvə-gəns

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A going beyond reasonable or proper limits in conduct or speech; unreasonable excess.

noun

A spending of more than is reasonable or necessary; excessive expenditure; wastefulness.

noun

The quality of being extravagant.

The extravagance of the furnishings; the extravagance of his rhetoric.

noun

Immoderate spending.

His extravagance led to his financial ruin.

noun

Something extravagant.

noun

Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.

noun

Prodigality as in extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.

noun

An instance of excess in spending, behavior, or speech.

noun

Other Word Forms

Singular:

extravagance

Plural:

extravagances

From French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extra + vagari (“to wander”).

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