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Extravagance

Extravagance Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Extravagance? [n] excessive spending [n] the trait of spending extravagantly [n] something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity Synonyms \| Synonyms for Extravagance: high life \| highlife \| lavishness \| luxury \| prodigality \| prodigality \| profligacy Related Terms \| Find terms related to Extravagance: abandon \| absurdity \| abundance \| affluence \| aggrandizement \| amenity \| ample sufficiency \| ampleness \| amplification \| amplitude \| avalanche \| ballyhoo \| bedizenment \| big talk \| bigotry \| blatancy \| blowing up \| bonanza \| boundlessness \| bountifulness \| bountiousness \| brazenness \| bumper crop \| burlesque \| capriciousness \| caricature \| carpe diem \| cloud of words \| colorfulness \| copiousness \| crapulence \| crapulency \| crapulousness \| crudeness \| dash \| dazzle \| dazzlingness \| deluge \| diffuseness \| diffusion \| diffusiveness \| dilatation \| dilation \| dissipation \| drunkenness \| duplication \| duplication of effort \| effusion \| effusiveness \| egregiousness \| embarras de richesses \| embellishment \| enhancement \| enlargement \| enormousness \| enough \| exaggerating \| exaggeration \| excess \| excessiveness \| exorbitance \| exorbitancy \| expansion \| expletive \| extortionateness \| extravagancy \| extravaganza \| extravagation \| extreme \| extremeness \| extremes \| extremism \| extremity \| exuberance \| fabulousness \| fanaticalness \| fanaticism \| fantasy \| fat \| featherbedding \| fecundity \| fertility \| filling \| flagrancy \| flamboyance \| flashiness \| flightiness \| flood \| flow \| fluency \| foison \| formlessness \| frill \| frills \| frippery \| full measure \| fullness \| gaiety \| garishness \| gaudery \| gaudiness \| generosity \| generousness \| giantism \| gigantism \| gingerbread \| glare \| glitter \| gluttony \| gorgeousness \| grandiloquence \| great abundance \| great plenty \| gush \| gushing \| heightening \| huckstering \| hyperbole \| hyperbolism \| hypertrophy \| immoderacy \| immoderateness \| immoderation \| improvidence \| incontinence \| indiscipline \| indulgence \| inflation \| inordinacy \| inordinance \| inordinateness \| intemperance \| intemperateness \| inundation \| irrationality \| jauntiness \| jazziness \| landslide \| lavishness \| leaking purse \| liberality \| liberalness \| logorrhea \| loose purse strings \| lots \| loudness \| luridness \| luxuriance \| luxury \| macrology \| magnification \| maximum \| meretriciousness \| money to burn \| monstrousness \| more than enough \| much \| myriad \| myriads \| needlessness \| nimiety \| numerousness \| obtrusiveness \| opulence \| opulency \| ornamentation \| outpour \| outpouring \| outrageousness \| overabundance \| overaccumulation \| overadornment \| overbounteousness \| overcopiousness \| overdevelopment \| overdoing \| overdose \| overemphasis \| overenthusiasm \| overestimation \| overflow \| overgenerosity \| overgenerousness \| overgreatness \| overgrowth \| overindulgence \| overkill \| overlap \| overlargeness \| overlavishness \| overliberality \| overluxuriance \| overmeasure \| overmuch \| overmuchness \| overnumerousness \| overplentifulness \| overplenty \| overpopulation \| overprofusion \| overreaction \| overreligiousness \| overstatement \| oversufficiency \| oversupply \| overzealousness \| padding \| palilogy \| panache \| payroll padding \| perfervidness \| plenitude \| plenteousness \| plentifulness \| plenty \| pleonasm \| plethora \| pound-foolishness \| preposterousness \| prevalence \| prodigality \| productiveness \| productivity \| profligacy \| profuseness \| profusion \| prolificacy \| prolificity \| prolixity \| puffery \| puffing up \| quantities \| rabidness \| radicalism \| rampancy \| rankness \| reckless expenditure \| reckless spending \| recklessness \| redundance \| redundancy \| reiteration \| reiterativeness \| repetition for effect \| repetitiveness \| repleteness \| repletion \| rich harvest \| rich vein \| richness \| riot \| riotousness \| scads \| self-indulgence \| sensationalism \| shamelessness \| shower \| showiness \| spate \| sportiness \| squander \| squandering \| squandermania \| stream \| stretching \| substantiality \| substantialness \| superabundance \| superfluity \| superfluousness \| superflux \| superlative \| swinishness \| talkativeness \| tall talk \| tautology \| tawdriness \| teemingness \| tirade \| too much \| too-muchness \| touting \| travesty \| ultrazealousness \| unconscionableness \| unconstraint \| uncontrol \| undueness \| unnecessariness \| unreasonableness \| unrestrainedness \| unrestraint \| verbosity \| vulgarness \| waste \| wastefulness \| wealth \| whim \| zealotism \| zealotry See Also \| dissipation \| improvidence \| indulgence \| self-indulgence \| shortsightedness \| waste \| wastefulness Extravagance In Webster's Dictionary \Extrav"agance\, n. [Cf. F. extravagance. See {Extravagant}, and cf. {Extravaganza}.] 1. A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit. 2. The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands. Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance. --Dryden. The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance. --Arbuthnot. Syn: Wildness; irregularity; excess; prodigality; profusion; waste; lavishness; unreasonableness; recklessness.

Extravagance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Extravagance?

[n] excessive spending
[n] the trait of spending extravagantly
[n] something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity

Extravagance In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*trav"a*gance\, n. [Cf. F. extravagance. See
{Extravagant}, and cf. {Extravaganza}.]
1. A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally
   from the usual way, course, or limit.

2. The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond
   bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess;
   especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and
   superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of
   anger, love, expression, imagination, demands.

         Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry
         vengeance on me for their extravagance. --Dryden.

         The income of three dukes was enough to supply her
         extravagance.                         --Arbuthnot.

Syn: Wildness; irregularity; excess; prodigality; profusion;
     waste; lavishness; unreasonableness; recklessness.

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