exorbitance
111intemperance — n 1. alcoholism, dipsomania, drunkenness, intoxication, inebriety, oenomania, crapulence; saturnalia, bacchanals, carousal, orgy, debauch, spree, Inf. bender, Sl. tear, Sl. binge. 2. self gratification, self indulgence, unrestraint;… …
112luxury — n 1. luxuriousness, luxe, sumptuousness, lavishness, opulence, splendor, purple and fine linen; abundance, profuseness,excessiveness, exorbitance. 2. indulgence, ease, Inf. easy street, Inf. velvet; Inf. clover; comfort, well being, sufficiency,… …
113profligacy — n 1. dissoluteness, dissipation, libertinism, lasciviousness, debauchery, dolce vita, profli gateness; licentiousness, abandon, unrestraint, wantonness, looseness; lechery, Pathol. satyriasis, goatishness, carnality, carnalness, carnalism;… …
114profusion — n 1. abundance, plenitude, bounty, cornucopia, horn of plenty, endless supply, Scot. scouth or skouth, Scot, and North Eng. routh. 2. quantity, quantities, volume, volumes, mass, masses, fund, mine, store; multitude, number, numbers, scores, host …
115superfluity — n 1. excessiveness, redundancy, redundance, superfluousness; immoderacy, immoderateness, extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, lavishness, lustiness, rankness, profuseness, profusiveness; inordinateness, Obs. inordinacy, exorbitance,… …
116exorbitant — UK [ɪɡˈzɔː(r)bɪtənt] / US [ɪɡˈzɔrbɪtənt] adjective an exorbitant price or amount of money is much more than is reasonable It meant borrowing money at an exorbitant rate of interest. exorbitant wage demands Derived words: exorbitance noun… …
117extravagance — [n] indulgence; waste absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, folly, frill, icing on the cake*, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending,… …
118luxury — [n] great pleasure, indulgence affluence, bliss, comfort, delight, enjoyment, exorbitance, extravagance, frill, gratification, hedonism, high living, immoderation, intemperance, leisure, luxuriousness, opulence, rarity, richness, satisfaction,… …
119prosperity — [n] affluence, good fortune abundance, accomplishment, advantage, arrival, bed of roses*, benefit, boom, clover, do, ease*, easy street*, exorbitance, expansion, flying colors*, fortune, good, good times, gravy train*, growth, high on the hog*,… …
120exorbitant — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high. DERIVATIVES exorbitance noun exorbitantly adverb. ORIGIN from Latin exorbitare go off the track …
