extravagance

CEFRB2

/ɪkˈstɹævəɡən(t)s/

noun

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noun
Spending or using much more money or resources than necessary.
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noun
Extra detail
Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.

Examples

His extravagance is out of proportion to his wage.
Such extravagance is beyond my reach.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 4
Synonyms: 5

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noun

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Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.
Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.

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That luxury car is an extravagance you can't afford.
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.

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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
A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016
At the same time he will need most carefully to avoid anything resembling extravagance or overstatement. While no socialist heorist has ever been known to discredit himself with his fellows even by the silliest of proposals, the old-fashioned liberal will damn himself by an impracticable suggestion.
1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 430
There were no limos or extravagances at this point, because we all wanted to make as much money as possible. We played it cheap. No huge catering bills, no wild parties, not even upgraded hotel rooms. Whenever we arrived at an airport Robin would be there to meet us in a rented SUV or big sedan, and we'd head to the gig on our own.
2010, Jeff Dunham, All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me

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Origin

noun

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

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Buying a yacht with gold rails was pure blank for the millionaire.