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Extravagance vs Irresponsibility - What's the difference?

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Extravagance is a related term of irresponsibility.


As nouns the difference between extravagance and irresponsibility

is that extravagance is excessive or superfluous expenditure of money while irresponsibility is the character or state of being irresponsible; lack of or freedom from responsibility; want of accountability.

extravagance

English

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.
  • Synonyms

    * lavishness * profusion * wildness * irregularity * excess * prodigality * profusion * waste * unreasonableness * recklessness

    Antonyms

    * frugality * economize * moderation

    irresponsibility

    English

    Noun

  • The character or state of being irresponsible; lack of or freedom from responsibility; want of accountability.
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