1. The quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
   "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description"
   - extravagancy 
2. The trait of spending extravagantly
   - prodigality, profligacy 
3. Excessive spending
   - prodigality, lavishness, highlife, high life

Derived forms: extravagances

See also: extravagant

Type of: dissipation, excess, excessiveness, improvidence, inordinateness, shortsightedness, waste, wastefulness

Encyclopedia: Extravagance

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