extravagance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The spending of much more money than is necessary or wise.

   The king was famous throughout Europe for his extravagance.

2. 2
   noun

   Something costly and unnecessary that one buys or does.

   A second holiday this year is an extravagance we can't afford.

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

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