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EXTRAVAGANCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does extravagancy mean?
• EXTRAVAGANCY (noun)
The noun EXTRAVAGANCY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
Familiarity information: EXTRAVAGANCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
extravagance; extravagancy
Context example:
we were surprised by the extravagance of his description
Hypernyms ("extravagancy" is a kind of...):
excess; excessiveness; inordinateness (immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits)
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