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extravagances

extravagances is the plural of extravagance.

Meaning of extravagance

Noun

extravagance (countable and uncountable, plural extravagances)

  1. Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
  2. Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
    • 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
  3. Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.
    • That luxury car is an extravagance you can't afford.

Questions about extravagances

What is extravagances the plural of?
Extravagances is the plural of extravagance.

Words near extravagances in the dictionary

  1. extraumbilical
  2. extraurinary
  3. extrauteral
  4. extrauterine
  5. extravagance
  6. extravagances
  7. extravagancies
  8. extravagancy
  9. extravagant
  10. Extravagantes
  11. extravagantly

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