extravagance
extravagance Lexical Profile
extravagance Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A lack of restraint in spending money or using resources; excessive and unnecessary expenditure.
"The company's financial downfall was largely attributed to the sheer extravagance of its executive retreats."
An expensive item or indulgence that is not strictly necessary.
"Dining at a Michelin-starred restaurant was a rare extravagance that they saved for their anniversary."
The quality of exceeding reasonable bounds in speech, behavior, or imagination; wild exaggeration.
"Critics praised the novel's imaginative plot but noted the occasional extravagance of the author's prose."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extravagant-, stem of extravagans ('wandering outside or beyond bounds'), formed from Latin extra ('outside') and vagari ('to wander').