Synonyms for extravagance
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Lavishness — prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands
lavishness, recklessness, excess, wastefulness, profusion, waste, high life, prodigality, highlife
2. Unreasonableness
Other
profligacy, wildness, irregularity, caricature, improvidence, exorbitance, immoderation, extravagancy dated
Definitions
- n. 1
Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
- n. 2
Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
Related words
- Word family
- extravagancy extravagantly extravaganza
Forms
- Plural
- extravagances → lavishnesses, recklessnesses, excesses, wastefulnesses…
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The old meaning of enthusiasm implies a pseudo-inspiration, an almost frantic extravagance in behalf of something supposed to be an expression of the divine will.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- excess The load of the truck was in excess of three tons.
- recklessness As soon as she came in, his recklessness vanished.
- lavishness The lavishness of the party amazed everybody.
- foolishness I'm getting endlessly annoyed by this foolishness.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| extravagance | steady | |
| excess | falling | |
| recklessness | rising | |
| wastefulness | falling | |
| lavishness | steady | |
| foolishness | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- waste1
- 6 letters
- excess2
- 8 letters
- wildness2, highlife
- 9 letters
- absurdity4, profusion3
- 10 letters
- caricature4, profligacy4, lavishness
- 11 letters
- foolishness3, prodigality, exorbitance
- 12 letters
- recklessness3, irregularity6, wastefulness3, improvidence, immoderation, extravagancy
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (excess2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- extravagance
- Italiano
- stravaganza
- Español
- extravagancia