Extravagance
//ɪkˈstɹævəɡən(t)s// noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money. countable, uncountable
- 2 the activity of excessive spending wordnet
- 3 Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands. countable, uncountable
"The visions of romance were over. Catherine was completely awakened. Henry’s address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done."
- 4 the trait of spending extravagantly wordnet
- 5 Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance. countable, uncountable
"That luxury car is an extravagance you can't afford."
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- 6 the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth wordnet
Example
More examples"Although I modified this extravagance later by including the beautiful life among the works of art that alone gave a meaning to life, it was still beauty that I valued."
Etymology
Borrowed from French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extra + vagor (“to wander”).
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