Extravagance
noun
The action of spending a lot of money on things that are not necessary.
He was known for his extravagance in buying expensive cars
Often appears as...
- acts of extravagance
- extravagance in spending
noun
Something that is extravagant.
The silk curtains in the dining room were seen as an extravagance
Often appears as...
- impractical extravagance
- unnecessary extravagance
noun
The quality of exceeding the limits of reason or necessity.
The extravagance of their demands shocked the negotiators
Often appears as...
- extravagance of claims
- extravagance of language
noun
The action of spending a lot of money on things that are not necessary.
He was known for his extravagance in buying expensive cars
Often appears as...
- acts of extravagance
- extravagance in spending
noun
Something that is extravagant.
The silk curtains in the dining room were seen as an extravagance
Often appears as...
- impractical extravagance
- unnecessary extravagance
noun
The quality of exceeding the limits of reason or necessity.
The extravagance of their demands shocked the negotiators
Often appears as...
- extravagance of claims
- extravagance of language
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Unnecessary Spending
Focus on the idea that this extravagance isn't essential, but chosen for personal pleasure or status.
Their wedding was an exercise in extravagance, with a ten-tiered cake and doves released.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Disapproval
The term often carries a negative judgment, suggesting imprudent or excessive spending habits.
His financial advisor warned him against the extravagance of weekly yacht parties.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Richness
Extravagance can allude to visually striking displays of wealth, not just the cost.
The chandelier's size and brilliance stood as a symbol of the family's extravagance.
Pro Tip 1/3Unnecessary Spending
Focus on the idea that this extravagance isn't essential, but chosen for personal pleasure or status.
Their wedding was an exercise in extravagance, with a ten-tiered cake and doves released.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Disapproval
The term often carries a negative judgment, suggesting imprudent or excessive spending habits.
His financial advisor warned him against the extravagance of weekly yacht parties.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Richness
Extravagance can allude to visually striking displays of wealth, not just the cost.
The chandelier's size and brilliance stood as a symbol of the family's extravagance.
Pro Tip 1/3Unnecessary Spending
Focus on the idea that this extravagance isn't essential, but chosen for personal pleasure or status.
Their wedding was an exercise in extravagance, with a ten-tiered cake and doves released.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Disapproval
The term often carries a negative judgment, suggesting imprudent or excessive spending habits.
His financial advisor warned him against the extravagance of weekly yacht parties.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Richness
Extravagance can allude to visually striking displays of wealth, not just the cost.
The chandelier's size and brilliance stood as a symbol of the family's extravagance.
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How to make hard choices...
But I came from a modest immigrant family where my idea of luxury was having a pork tongue and jelly sandwich in my school lunchbox, so the thought of spending my whole life sitting around in armchairs just thinking Well, that struck me as the height of extravagance and frivolity.
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National Geographic...
extravagance here in the high mountains it is possible to conclude that what you don't accomplish holds equal importance with what you do here the absence of life and the void created by nature forces you to examine a spiritual
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How to make hard choices...
But I came from a modest immigrant family where my idea of luxury was having a pork tongue and jelly sandwich in my school lunchbox, so the thought of spending my whole life sitting around in armchairs just thinking Well, that struck me as the height of extravagance and frivolity.
Video examples
National Geographic...
extravagance here in the high mountains it is possible to conclude that what you don't accomplish holds equal importance with what you do here the absence of life and the void created by nature forces you to examine a spiritual
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Quote examples
BeBe Zahara Benet
Cameroonian Celebrity
VANITY' is a celebration of beauty, self-identity, and self-respect. We want people to leave the show feeling okay to accept themselves - not to hold back and be ashamed of the extravagances they like to indulge in. We should be able to celebrate these things because they are part of living and we all strive for them.
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Christian Louboutin
French Designer
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.
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John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.
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Sabine Baring-Gould
English Clergyman
A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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Paul Washer
American Clergyman
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.
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Rachel Nichols
American Actress
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Imelda Marcos
Celebrity
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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Frank Gehry
American Architect
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
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Hong Chau
American Actress
I like to be very simple in my lifestyle. My only extravagance is... I buy lots of toys and meats for my dog.
Quote examples
BeBe Zahara Benet
Cameroonian Celebrity
VANITY' is a celebration of beauty, self-identity, and self-respect. We want people to leave the show feeling okay to accept themselves - not to hold back and be ashamed of the extravagances they like to indulge in. We should be able to celebrate these things because they are part of living and we all strive for them.
Quote examples
Christian Louboutin
French Designer
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.
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John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.
Quote examples
Sabine Baring-Gould
English Clergyman
A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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Paul Washer
American Clergyman
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.
Quote examples
Rachel Nichols
American Actress
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Imelda Marcos
Celebrity
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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Frank Gehry
American Architect
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
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Hong Chau
American Actress
I like to be very simple in my lifestyle. My only extravagance is... I buy lots of toys and meats for my dog.
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