as in excessiveness
a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits an exorbitance that seemed to have been brought about by a midlife crisis

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Recent Examples of exorbitance The exorbitance of Park Place, the alien sound of Kamchatka and Irkutsk — these were backward-feeling games that urged ravenous competition. Dan Zak, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023 Still, there’s a big difference between real, existing social democracy — of the sort on display in Denmark or Sweden —and the Christmas list exorbitance of the DSA platform. Will Wilkinson, Vox, 16 Aug. 2018
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excess
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  • Mania, the one side of its polarity, wants novelty, power, movement, excess.
    Cameron Esposito, Glamour, 12 May 2025
  • Amid low hope for progress, one positive outcome for financial markets in talks would be an agreement to bring down tariffs from an excess of 100 percent to levels allowing products to flow each way, Reuters reported.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025

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“Exorbitance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exorbitance. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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