extravagance

Etymology

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

noun

  1. Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
  2. Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
    The visions of romance were over. Catherine was completely awakened. Henry’s address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done. 1803, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
  3. Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.
    That luxury car is an extravagance you can't afford.

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