extravagancy

1. 1.

   the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth

   “we were surprised by the extravagance of his description”

   Synonymsextravagance

   Broaderexcess

Other forms of extravagancy

plural

extravagancies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about extravagancy

What does extravagancy mean?

extravagancy means "the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth".

How many syllables are in extravagancy?

extravagancy has 5 syllables: ex-tra-va-gan-cy. The stress falls on "va".

What is another word for extravagancy?

Close synonyms include extravagance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is extravagancy a common word?

extravagancy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.