extravagance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   excessive spending

   The monarch was known around the world for their extravagance.

2. 2
   noun

   the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth

   We were surprised by the extravagance of their description.

3. 3
   noun

   Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.

   The visions of romance were over. Catherine was completely awakened. Henry’s address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done.

4. 4
   noun

   Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.

   That luxury car is an extravagance you can't afford.

5. 5
   noun

   the trait of spending extravagantly

6. 6
   noun

   Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.

Etymology

Borrowed from French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extra + vagor (“to wander”).