as in generosity
the quality or fact of being free or wasteful in the expenditure of money warned their spendthrift daughter that she would eventually pay the price for her extravagancy

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Noun
  • Appreciate Wilson’s technical brilliance but also the emotional generosity of his choral arrangements in which falsetto yearning is granted bass underpinning.
    Armond White, National Review, 18 June 2025
  • That is, generosity declined as social distance increased.
    Tobias Kalenscher, Scientific American, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Again, it was constructed with resourcefulness, not extravagance.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
  • The passion is felt through each index, and I’m even drawn to the high drama of the $1.5 million extravagance of the Deep Blue—the least understated of all Biver’s creations.
    Thor Svaboe, Robb Report, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Just below the altar, the cinerary casket was banked by a glorious profusion of sweet peas, Reinaldo’s favorite flowers.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
  • However, Rosenbaum argues, a profusion of biographies and publications focused on Bloomsbury since the 1960s is proof of ongoing curiosity about the phenomenon and the people involved in it.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 14 May 2025
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“Extravagancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extravagancy. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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