| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. The quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth.[Wordnet]
2. Extravagance.[Websters]. | |
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Date "EXTRAVAGANCY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1518. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EXTRAVAGANCY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] Literally, a wandering beyond a limit; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course or limit.. | 2: [Adjective] In writing or discourse, a going beyond the limits of strict truth, or probability; as extravagance of expression or description.. | 3: [Adjective] Excess of affection, passion or appetite; as extravagance of love, anger, hatred or hunger.. | 4: [Adjective] Excess in expenditures of property; the expending of money without necessity, or beyond what is reasonable or proper; dissipation. The income of three dukes was not enough to supply her extravagance.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A thing that is extravagant. (references) | 2: [Noun] The characteristic of being extravagant. (references) | |
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