Whimsy vs Extravagance - What's the difference?
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A quaint and fanciful idea. A whim. Playfully odd behaviour.
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An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
(mining) A whim.
To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
* J. Fletcher
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 nouns the difference between whimsy and extravagance
is that whimsy is a quaint and fanciful idea a whim playfully odd behaviour while extravagance is excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.As a verb whimsy
is to fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.whimsy
English
Alternative forms
* whimseyNoun
(en-noun)- The whimsies of poets and painters. — Ray.
- Men's folly, whimsies , and inconstancy. — Swift.
- Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. — Bancroft.
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Verb
- To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth.