About The Word Extravagance
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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
\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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