Extravagance vs Absurdity - What's the difference?
extravagance | absurdity | Related terms |
Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
Prodigality as in extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
:They spared nothing in obtaining extravagances for each other. Everything was lavish and wildly in excess. They were in love!
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
(obsolete, rare) Dissonance.
(countable) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
* His travels were full of absurdities . - Johnson
(uncountable) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
* The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number. -
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Extravagance is a related term of absurdity.
As nouns the difference between extravagance and absurdity
is that extravagance is excessive or superfluous expenditure of money while absurdity is (obsolete|rare) dissonance .extravagance
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(en noun)Synonyms
* lavishness * profusion * wildness * irregularity * excess * prodigality * profusion * waste * unreasonableness * recklessnessAntonyms
* frugality * economize * moderationabsurdity
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Noun
- Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
