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extravagance
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extra + vagor (“to wander”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?st?æv???ns/
- Hyphenation: ex?trav?a?gance
Noun
extravagance (countable and uncountable, plural extravagances)
- Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
- Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
- 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
Antonyms
- frugality
- economize
- moderation
Related terms
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
extravagance f (plural extravagances)
- extravagance
- 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
- Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.
- His curiosity and his extravagance came to the point that he sold several arpents of good working land to buy books of chivalry to read.
- Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.
- 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
Related terms
- extravagant
- extravagamment
Further reading
- “extravagance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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stupidity
English
Alternative forms
- stupidité (rare)
Etymology
From Latin stupidit?tem, accusative of Latin stupidit?s, equivalent to stupid +? -ity.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stju??p?d?ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /stu?p?d?ti/
- Rhymes: -?d?ti
- Hyphenation: stu?pid?i?ty
Noun
stupidity (countable and uncountable, plural stupidities)
- (uncountable) The property of being stupid.
- (countable) An act that is stupid.
Synonyms
- dumbness
- unintelligence
- idiocy
Translations
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