Extravagance

Noun

 * 1) excessive or superfluous expenditure of money
 * 2) prodigality as in extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, or  demands.
 * 3) * They spared nothing in obtaining extravagances for each other. Everything was lavish and wildly in excess. They were in love!

Synonyms

 * lavishness
 * profusion
 * wildness
 * irregularity
 * excess


 * prodigality
 * profusion
 * waste
 * unreasonableness
 * recklessness

Antonyms

 * frugality
 * economize
 * moderation

Adjectives for Extravagance
fine; reckless; ostentatious; unusual; tasteless; absurd; oratorical; rough; gorgeous; favorite; complete; unwarrantable; incipient; lavish; wasteful; senseless; frightful; old-time; wicked; imaginable; utmost; elegant; profligate; forensic; bromidic; unjustified; flagrant.

Verbs for Extravagance
check —; cloak in —; consort with —; court —; criticize —; guard against —; indulge in —; involve in —; regret —; rue —; sac¬rifice to —; smack of —; stimulate —; supply —; warn against —; — corrupts; — destroys ; — drains; — fetters; — impoverishes; — inflames; — reigns; — shocks.

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

Etymology
From extra: + vagari:.

Translations

 * Greek: χλιδή
 * Japanese: 贅沢 (ぜいたく, zeitaku)


 * Polish: ekstrawagancja
 * Scottish Gaelic: ana-caitheamh


 * Dutch: buitensporigheid


 * Scottish Gaelic: ana-caitheamh

Related terms

 * extravagantly
 * extravaganza
 * extravagancy
 * extravagancies

Noun

 * 1) extravagance
 * 2) * 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
 * Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.
 * His curiosity and his extravagance came to the point that he sold several arpents of good working land to buy books of chivalry to read.