Superfluous vs Extravagance - What's the difference?
superfluous | extravagance |
In excess of what is required or sufficient.
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.
As a adjective superfluous
is in excess of what is required or sufficient.As a noun extravagance is
excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.superfluous
English
Adjective
(-)- With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous .
