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    extravagancy
    [ikˈstravəɡ(ə)nsē]
    definition
    1. noun form of extravagance
    ex·trav·a·gance
    [ikˈstravəɡəns, ekˈstravəɡəns]
    noun
    extravagance (noun) · extravagances (plural noun)
    1. lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources:
      "his reckless extravagance with other people's money"
      • a thing on which too much money has been spent or which has used up too many resources:
        "salmon trout is an unnecessary extravagance"
      • excessive elaborateness of style, speech, or action:
        "the extravagance of the decor"
    Origin
    mid 17th century: from French, from medieval Latin extravagant- ‘diverging greatly’, from the verb extravagari (see extravagant).
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    Similar and Opposite Words
    noun
    1. lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources:
      profligacy
      unthriftiness
      thriftlessness
      improvidence
      wastefulness
      waste
      overspending
      prodigality
      squandering
      lavishness
      immoderation
      excess
      recklessness
      irresponsibility
      lack of thrift
      lack of restraint
      spendthrift behavior
      free-spending ways
      Opposite:
      thrift
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