Extravagance vs Senselessness - What's the difference?
extravagance | senselessness | 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.
The state of being senseless; unsense.
* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, "
Extravagance is a related term of senselessness.
As nouns the difference between extravagance and senselessness
is that extravagance is excessive or superfluous expenditure of money while senselessness is the state of being senseless; unsense.extravagance
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(en noun)Synonyms
* lavishness * profusion * wildness * irregularity * excess * prodigality * profusion * waste * unreasonableness * recklessnessAntonyms
* frugality * economize * moderationsenselessness
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Noun
(en-noun)Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- They had contributed heavily to their own downfall, most glaringly with the senselessness of Chris Smalling’s red card, and they should know by now that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are not the kind of opponents to pass up these kind of handouts.
