extravagance
excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
Other meanings
prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.
“That luxury car is an extravagance you can't afford.”
Related words
- extravagantly
- extravaganza
- extravagancy
- extravagancies
- extravagate
- extravagation
Word history
From Medieval Latin "extra".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “extravagance” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.