Noun

(en noun)

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.

Noun

The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.

Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.

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, year= 1895 , year_published= , author= , by= (Max Simon Nordau) , title= Degeneration , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=LOWr5TsEaPUC&pg=PA270 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= D. Appleton and Company , location= New York , editor= , volume= , page= 270 , passage= The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility . }}