Definition of Extravagance

Extravagance

A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.

The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands.

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Extravagance Quotations

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Virginia Woolf

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Pericles

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
Norman Rockwell

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Charles Caleb Colton

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
Bern Williams

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.
Howard Hodgkin

A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right.
Audrey Meadows

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
Ellen Wilkinson

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Jennie Churchill

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Extravagance Translations

extravagance in Latin is luxuria
extravagance in Spanish is extravagancia

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