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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXTRAV'AGANCE
EXTRAV'AGANCY, a. [L. extra and vagans; vagor, to wander. See Vague.]
1. Literally, a wandering beyond a limit; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course or limit.
2. In writing or discourse, a going beyond the limits of strict truth, or probability; as extravagance of expression or description.
3. Excess of affection, passion or appetite; as extravagance of love, anger, hatred or hunger.
4. Excess in expenditures of property; the expending of money without necessity, or beyond what is reasonable or proper; dissipation.
The income of three dukes was not enough to supply her extravagance.
5. In general, any excess or wandering from prescribed limits; irregularity; wildness; as the extravagance of imagination; extravagance of claims or demands.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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]
2: the trait of spending extravagantly [syn: extravagance, prodigality, profligacy]
3: excessive spending [syn: extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, highlife, high life]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1640 1. a. an instance of excess or prodigality; specifically an excessive outlay of money b. something extravagant <a new car is an extravagance we can't afford> 2. the quality or fact of being extravagant <the extravagance of the decorations>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 excessive spending or use of resources; being extravagant. 2 an instance or item of this. Derivatives: extravagancy n. (pl. -ies). Etymology: F (as EXTRAVAGANT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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. Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance. --Dryden. The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance. --Arbuthnot. Syn: Wildness; irregularity; excess; prodigality; profusion; waste; lavishness; unreasonableness; recklessness.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(extravagances) 1. Extravagance is the spending of more money than is reasonable or than you can afford. ...gross mismanagement and financial extravagance... When the company went under, tales of his extravagance surged through the industry. N-UNCOUNT 2. An extravagance is something that you spend money on but cannot really afford. Her only extravagance was horses... N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Excess, exorbitance, enormity, unreasonableness, preposterousness. 2. Irregularity, wildness, folly, excess, absurdity. 3. Prodigality, profusion, waste, lavish expenditure.

Moby Thesaurus

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