[syn: extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, highlife, high life]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry
vengeance on me for their extravagance. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
The income of three dukes was enough to supply her
extravagance. --Arbuthnot.
Syn: Wildness; irregularity; excess; prodigality; profusion;
waste; lavishness; unreasonableness; recklessness.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
extravagance
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
300 Moby Thesaurus words for "extravagance":
abandon, absurdity, abundance, affluence, aggrandizement, amenity,
ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplification, amplitude, avalanche,
ballyhoo, bedizenment, big talk, bigotry, blatancy, blowing up,
bonanza, boundlessness, bountifulness, bountiousness, brazenness,
bumper crop, burlesque, capriciousness, caricature, carpe diem,
cloud of words, colorfulness, copiousness, crapulence, crapulency,
crapulousness, crudeness, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, deluge,
diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dilatation, dilation,
dissipation, drunkenness, duplication, duplication of effort,
effusion, effusiveness, egregiousness, embarras de richesses,
embellishment, enhancement, enlargement, enormousness, enough,
exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance,
exorbitancy, expansion, expletive, extortionateness, extravagancy,
extravaganza, extravagation, extreme, extremeness, extremes,
extremism, extremity, exuberance, fabulousness, fanaticalness,
fanaticism, fantasy, fat, featherbedding, fecundity, fertility,
filling, flagrancy, flamboyance, flashiness, flightiness, flood,
flow, fluency, foison, formlessness, frill, frills, frippery,
full measure, fullness, gaiety, garishness, gaudery, gaudiness,
generosity, generousness, giantism, gigantism, gingerbread, glare,
glitter, gluttony, gorgeousness, grandiloquence, great abundance,
great plenty, gush, gushing, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole,
hyperbolism, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation,
improvidence, incontinence, indiscipline, indulgence, inflation,
inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance,
intemperateness, inundation, irrationality, jauntiness, jazziness,
landslide, lavishness, leaking purse, liberality, liberalness,
logorrhea, loose purse strings, lots, loudness, luridness,
luxuriance, luxury, macrology, magnification, maximum,
meretriciousness, money to burn, monstrousness, more than enough,
much, myriad, myriads, needlessness, nimiety, numerousness,
obtrusiveness, opulence, opulency, ornamentation, outpour,
outpouring, outrageousness, overabundance, overaccumulation,
overadornment, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdevelopment,
overdoing, overdose, overemphasis, overenthusiasm, overestimation,
overflow, overgenerosity, overgenerousness, overgreatness,
overgrowth, overindulgence, overkill, overlap, overlargeness,
overlavishness, overliberality, overluxuriance, overmeasure,
overmuch, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness,
overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, overreaction,
overreligiousness, overstatement, oversufficiency, oversupply,
overzealousness, padding, palilogy, panache, payroll padding,
perfervidness, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty,
pleonasm, plethora, pound-foolishness, preposterousness,
prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profligacy,
profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prolixity,
puffery, puffing up, quantities, rabidness, radicalism, rampancy,
rankness, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, recklessness,
redundance, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness,
repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion,
rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, scads,
self-indulgence, sensationalism, shamelessness, shower, showiness,
spate, sportiness, squander, squandering, squandermania, stream,
stretching, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance,
superfluity, superfluousness, superflux, superlative, swinishness,
talkativeness, tall talk, tautology, tawdriness, teemingness,
tirade, too much, too-muchness, touting, travesty,
ultrazealousness, unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontrol,
undueness, unnecessariness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness,
unrestraint, verbosity, vulgarness, waste, wastefulness, wealth,
whim, zealotism, zealotry