What does extravagance mean?
Definitions for extravagance
ɪkˈstræv ə gənsex·trav·a·gance
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word extravagance.
Princeton's WordNet
extravagance, extravagancynoun
the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
"we were surprised by the extravagance of his description"
extravagance, prodigality, profligacynoun
the trait of spending extravagantly
extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, highlife, high lifenoun
excessive spending
Wiktionary
extravagancenoun
excessive or superfluous expenditure of money
extravagancenoun
prodigality as in extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
Etymology: From extra + vagari.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Extravagance, Extravagancynoun
Etymology: extravagans, Latin.
I have troubled you too far with this extravagance: I shall make no delay to recall myself into the road again, having been taught by you those several particulars. Henry Hammond.
How many, by the wild fury and extravagancy of their own passions, have put their bodies into a combustion, and by stirring up their rage against others, have armed that fierce humour against themselves. John Tillotson, Sermon 4.
I remember some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, which cry vengeance upon me for their extravagance. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar, Dedication.
She used to come home in her cups, and break the china and the looking-glasses; and was of such an irregular temper, and so entirely given up to her passion, that you might argue as well with the North-wind as with her ladyship; so expensive, that the income of three dukes was not enough to supply her extravagance. Arbuthnot.
ChatGPT
extravagance
Extravagance is a behavior or act of spending excessive or lavish amounts of money, living a luxurious lifestyle, or possessing items of high cost, often beyond what is necessary or reasonable. It can also refer to actions characterized by excess, overindulgence, or elaborate display.
Webster Dictionary
Extravagancenoun
a wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit
Extravagancenoun
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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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of extravagance in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of extravagance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of extravagance in a Sentence
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.
Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
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