Exorbitance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exorbitance \Ex*or"bi*tance\, Exorbitancy \Ex*or"bi*tan*cy\,, n.
     A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence,
     enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or
     propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of
     deportment; exorbitance of demands. "A curb to your
     exorbitancies." --Dryden.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions.
                                                    --Bp. Hall.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  exorbitance
       n : excessive excess [syn: {outrageousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "exorbitance":
     abandon, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk,
     blowing up, boundlessness, burlesque, caricature, dilatation,
     dilation, egregiousness, enhancement, enlargement, enormousness,
     exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitancy,
     expansion, extortionateness, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme,
     extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, giantism, gigantism,
     gluttony, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole,
     hyperbolism, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation,
     incontinence, inflation, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness,
     intemperance, intemperateness, magnification, monstrousness,
     nimiety, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overemphasis,
     overestimation, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence,
     overkill, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, overstatement,
     preposterousness, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up,
     radicalism, sensationalism, stretching, superlative, tall talk,
     too much, too-muchness, touting, travesty, unconscionableness,
     undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness