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Definition of Extravagancy
1. Noun. The quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth. "We were surprised by the extravagance of his description"
Generic synonyms: Excess, Excessiveness, Inordinateness
Derivative terms: Extravagant
Definition of Extravagancy
1. n. Extravagance.
Definition of Extravagancy
1. Noun. (archaic 17-19th centuries) The characteristic of being extravagant. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic 17-19th centuries) A thing that is extravagant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Extravagancy
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extravagancy
Literary usage of Extravagancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... not only the bodies of brutes, but even of trees and plants too ; two inconsistent
paradoxes ; the latter whereof is a most prodigious extravagancy, ..."
2. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"The reason of this extravagancy (besides their natural humour to affront the
king, and this seeming care of the prince was a popular thing) was pretended to ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... indulge to fortuitous mechanism ; which seems to be an extravagancy, that
mechanical philosophers and Atomists have been always more or less subject to. ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... of the two this opinion is more reasonable and tolerable than that other
extravagancy of those, who will either make all souls to be generated, ..."
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