Associations to the word «Extravagance»

Wiktionary

EXTRAVAGANCE, noun. Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
EXTRAVAGANCE, noun. Prodigality as in extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.

Dictionary definition

EXTRAVAGANCE, noun. The quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth; "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description".
EXTRAVAGANCE, noun. The trait of spending extravagantly.
EXTRAVAGANCE, noun. Excessive spending.

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.