different between extravagance vs sybarite

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)

1. Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
2. 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)

1. extravagance
   • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.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.

Related terms

• extravagant
  • extravagamment

Further reading

• “extravagance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin Sybar?ta, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Subarít?s, “inhabitant of Subaris”), from ??????? (Súbaris), an ancient Greek city in southeastern Italy noted for the luxurious, pleasure-seeking habits of many of its inhabitants.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?b???a?t/

Noun

sybarite (plural sybarites)

1. A person devoted to pleasure and luxury.

   Synonyms: voluptuary, see also Thesaurus:sensualist

   Antonym: hedonophobe

   • 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter iv, page 87:

Translations

Anagrams

• bestiary

French

Etymology

From Latin Sybarita

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ba.?it/

Adjective

sybarite (plural sybarites)

1. related to Sybaris
2. soft, effeminate, living in pleasure and luxury

   Ces docteurs frivoles, ces philosophes sybarites qui repoussent toute pensée sérieuse. (Jouy, Hermite, t. 2, 1812)

Synonyms

• (soft, effeminate, living in pleasure): délicat, jouisseur, sensuel, voluptueux

Derived terms

• sybaritisme

Related terms

• sybaritique

Noun

sybarite m (plural sybarites)

1. sybarite, person devoted to pleasure and luxury

   Je compris ce qui chagrinait le marquis dans son bonheur, et je découvris quel était le pli de rose dont soupirait ce sybarite sur sa couche de volupté. (Théophile Gautier, Fracasse, 1863)

Synonyms

• jouisseur

Antonyms

• ascète

References

• “sybarite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

• “sybarite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).