'Exorbitance' definitions:
Definition of 'exorbitance'
From: WordNet
noun
Excessive excess [syn: exorbitance, outrageousness]
Definition of 'Exorbitance'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'exorbitance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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