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extravagation

noun

Etymology

From extravagate + -ion.

  1. derived from *h₁éǵʰs✻ — “out”
  2. derived from extrā — “beyond, outside of”
  3. suffixed as extravagation — “extravagate + ion”

Definitions

  1. A straying beyond limits

    A straying beyond limits; excess.

    • By reaso[n] of which their digressions and extravagations, the ancients assigned the Zodiaque 12. Degrees of Latitude.
    • Such tropes expose the extravagation whereby capitalism is decked out as the incontestable standard of human behavior and culture.

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