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extravagance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | extravagancy |
| Type of | inordinateness, excess, excessiveness |
| Derivation | extravagant |
we were surprised by the extravagance of his description.
extravagance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality |
| Type of | dissipation, waste, wastefulness |
| Derivation | extravagant |
extravagance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prodigality, profligacy |
| Type of | improvidence, shortsightedness |
| Derivation | extravagant |
Examples of extravagance
extravagance
I'm a non-smoker, but allow the extravagance of chocolate once or twice a month.
From the dailymercury.com.au
Root for a level of shopping extravagance, so we can brag of growing confidence.
From the ocregister.com
Why hold onto an apparent extravagance in an age of low-cost, no-amenity flying?
From the abcnews.go.com
I agree 100% the author got carried away with the extravagance of his own prose.
From the economist.com
There's no great extravagance about him but he has a tendency to come up trumps.
From the guardian.co.uk
Elizabeth's extravagance was also clearly displayed in the foods eaten at Court.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The place is a packed little bubble of extravagance, luxury and many policemen.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It is the season to savour the extravagance of nature and the wealth of our land.
From the guardian.co.uk
Tell you what, India, How about YOU just keep him and pay for his extravagance?
From the washingtontimes.com
- The quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth; "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description"
- The trait of spending extravagantly
- Excessive spending
- (extravagant) excessive: unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
- (extravagant) recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
- (extravagantly) abundantly: in an abundant manner; "they were abundantly supplied with food"; "he thanked her profusely"
- (extravagantly) in a wasteful manner; "the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap"
- (extravagantly) lavishly: in a rich and lavish manner; "lavishly decorated"
- Extravagance is unrestrained excess. Extravagant behaviour includes the frequent purchase of luxury goods, and was once considered one of the seven deadly sins (frequently known, in Latin, as luxuria); as a result of semantic change in the Romance languages, lust later replaced it in the list.
