Plural of extravagance; excessive spending, lavish displays, or wildly unreasonable behavior or ideas.
From Old French 'extravagant,' derived from Medieval Latin 'extravagans' (wandering beyond), from 'extra' (outside) + 'vagari' (to wander), originally describing things that strayed outside normal bounds.
The root literally means 'wandering outside'—extravagances are ideas or purchases that have wandered so far beyond practical limits that they become absurd, like a billionaire's $500 million mega-yacht.
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