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Search option Results found in English Dictionary Synonyms: [n] : extravagancy , excess [gt] , excessiveness [gt] , inordinateness [gt] [n] : prodigality , profligacy , improvidence [gt] , shortsightedness [gt] [n] : prodigality , lavishness , highlife , high life , waste [gt] , wastefulness [gt] , dissipation [gt]
Wiki: Extravagance is unrestrained excess. Extravagant behaviour includes the frequent purchase of luxury goods, and was once considered one of the seven deadly sins (frequently known, in Latin, as luxuria); as a result of semantic change in the Romance languages, lust later replaced it in the list. However, when the adjectival form - extravagant - is used to refer to a person, it is usually considered to be a description of eccentric behaviour, rather than a moral criticism.
Example: Although I modified this extravagance later by including the beautiful life among the works of art that alone gave a meaning to life, it was still beauty that I valued. Such extravagance is beyond my reach. His extravagance is out of proportion to his wage. I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance : I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane. The bow tie gives him an air of extravagance .
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