extravagance
pronunciation
How to pronounce extravagance in British English:
UK [ɪkˈstrævəɡəns]
How to pronounce extravagance in American English:
US [ɪkˈstrævəɡəns]
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- Noun:
- the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
- the trait of spending extravagantly
- excessive spending
Word Origin
- extravagance (n.)
- 1640s, "an extravagant act," from French extravagance, from Late Latin extravagantem (see extravagant). Specifically of wasteful spending from 1727. Meaning "quality of being extravagant" is from 1670s. Extravagancy, "a wandering," especially "a wandering from the usual course," is attested from c. 1600, now rare.
Example
- 1. Mr blankfein is not known for obvious extravagance .
- 2. Although some blame asian saving , others point to western extravagance .
- 3. He would have been criticised for recklessness , extravagance and amateurism .
- 4. The modern royals , by which I mean victoria onwards , have often managed to combine an unbounded extravagance with a certain ersatz asceticism .
- 5. This is a form of literary extravagance only possible when a surplus of thought and emotion accumulates .