Extravagance

3 definitions found

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

  Extravagance \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.
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     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.
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              Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry
              vengeance on me for their extravagance. --Dryden.
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              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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  extravagance
       n 1: the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum
            or probability or truth; "we were surprised by the
            extravagance of his description" [syn: {extravagancy}]
       2: the trait of spending extravagantly [syn: {prodigality}, {profligacy}]
       3: excessive spending [syn: {prodigality}, {lavishness}, {highlife},
           {high life}]

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

  300 Moby Thesaurus words for "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