extravagance

noun
/ɪkˈstɹævəɡən(t)s/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from extra
  2. borrowed from extravagance

Definitions

  1. Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.

  2. 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.
  3. Something extravagant

    Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for extravagance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA