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exorbitance
[ig-zawr-bi-tuhns] 
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exorbitance
[ig-zawr-bi-tuhns]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extravagance |
| Synonyms: | costliness, excess, excessiveness, luxury |
| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overindulgence in personal desires |
| Synonyms: | debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, exorbitance, extravagance, extreme, extremity, immoderacy, immoderation, indulgence, inordinateness, intemperance, overdoing, prodigality, saturnalia, self-indulgence, unrestraint |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, economy, frugality, moderation, privation |
| Main Entry: | extravagance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indulgence; waste |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, wastefulness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | economy, moderation, providence, saving, thrift, thriftiness |
| Main Entry: | luxury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great pleasure, indulgence |
| Synonyms: | affluence, bliss, comfort, delight, enjoyment, exorbitance, extravagance, frill, gratification, hedonism, high living, immoderation, intemperance, leisure, luxuriousness, opulence, rarity, richness, satisfaction, splendor, sumptuousness, treat, well-being |
| Antonyms: | austerity, economy, frugality |
| Main Entry: | prosperity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affluence, good fortune |
| Synonyms: | abundance, accomplishment, advantage, arrival, bed of roses, benefit, boom, clover, do, ease*, easy street, exorbitance, expansion, flying colors, fortune, good, good times, gravy train, growth, high on the hog, increase, inflation, interest, life of luxury, luxury, opulence, plenteousness, plenty, prosperousness, riches, success, successfulness, the good life, thriving, velvet, victory, wealth, welfare, well-being |
| Antonyms: | failure, loss, poorness, poverty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | excessiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, inordinateness, lavishness, overabundance, overplus, plethora, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit |
| Main Entry: | extravagancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagantness, inordinateness, lavishness, overabundance, overindulgence, overplus, overspending, plethora, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit, unreasonableness, waste, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | extravagantness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, inordinateness, lavishness, overabundance, overplus, plethora, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit |
| Main Entry: | prodigality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extravagance |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, extravagancy, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, waste, wastefulness, wildness |
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