extravagance

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
2. (countable, uncountable) Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
3. (countable, uncountable) Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.

Synonyms

prodigality

luxury

waste

lavishness

wastefulness

extravagancy

profligacy

squandering

exaggeration

magnificence

exorbitance

waste of money

wasting

high life

eccentricity

expense

highlife

overstatement

lavish

improvidence

lunacy

magnification

meretriciousness

oddity

outlandishness

overspending

pomp

preciosity

pretentiousness

profuseness

pushy

rakishness

spender

spendthrift

splendor

splendour

splurge

sumptuous

thriftlessness

treat

absurdity

whim

wonderful

live high

wastage

blueing

caprice

crankiness

dissipation

ebullience

Translations

extravagancia

Verschwendung

extravagance

Luxus

buitensporigheid

extravagância

πολυτέλεια

σπατάλη

Üppigkeit

Extravaganz

luxus

Pracht

ασωτία

gaspillage

χλιδή

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪkˈstɹævəɡəns/

Etymology

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