Extravagance: alternatives and connections

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

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The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or pr…

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The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.

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Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.

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Extravagance.

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The quality or state of being lavish.

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Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.

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The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dis…

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