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Extravagance vs Unwisdom - What's the difference?

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Extravagance is a related term of unwisdom.


As nouns the difference between extravagance and unwisdom

is that extravagance is excessive or superfluous expenditure of money while unwisdom is lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity.

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

    Related terms

    * extravagantly * extravaganza * extravagancy * extravagancies ----

    unwisdom

    English

    Noun

  • Lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity.
  • * Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute -
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 151:
    • Reporting from Vietnam in 1945, he may have been the first person to assert the extreme unwisdom of trying to restore French colonialism with British troops.