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Frugality vs Extravagance - What's the difference?

frugality | extravagance | Antonyms |

Extravagance is a antonym of frugality.



As nouns the difference between frugality and extravagance

is that frugality is the quality of being frugal; prudent economy; thrift while extravagance is excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.

frugality

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; thrift.
  • A sparing use; sparingness.
  • Synonyms

    * parsimony * thriftiness

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    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