'Extravagance' definitions:
Definition of 'extravagance'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth; "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description" [syn: extravagance, extravagancy]
noun
The trait of spending extravagantly [syn: extravagance, prodigality, profligacy]
noun
Definition of 'Extravagance'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance. --Arbuthnot.
- Syn: Wildness; irregularity; excess; prodigality; profusion; waste; lavishness; unreasonableness; recklessness. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'extravagance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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