The quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth:
— We were surprised by the extravagance of his description.
synonym: extravagancy.
Roget 641:
redundancy,
redundance†;
too much,
too many;
superabundance,
superfluity,
superfluence†,
saturation;
nimiety†,
transcendency,
exuberance,
profuseness;
profusion
etc.
(plenty)
639;
repletion,
enough in all conscience,
satis superque [Lat.],
lion's share;
more than enough
etc.
639;
plethora,
engorgement,
congestion,
load,
surfeit,
sickener†;
turgescence
etc.
(expansion)
194†;
overdose,
overmeasure†,
oversupply,
overflow;
inundation
etc.
(water)
348;
avalanche.
accumulation
etc.
(store)
636;
heap
etc.
72;
drug,
drug in the market;
glut;
crowd;
burden.
excess;
surplus,
overplus†;
epact†;
margin;
remainder
etc.
40;
duplicate;
surplusage†,
expletive;
work of supererogation;
bonus,
bonanza.
luxury;
intemperance
etc.
954;
extravagance
etc.
(prodigality)
818;
exorbitance,
lavishment†.
pleonasm
etc.
(diffuseness)
573;
too many irons in the fire;
embarras de richesses [Fr.].
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Roget 853:
ridiculousness
etc.
adj.;
comicality,
oddity
etc.
adj.;
extravagance,
drollery.
farce,
comedy;
burlesque
etc.
(ridicule)
856;
buffoonery
etc.
(fun)
840;
frippery;
doggerel verses;
absurdity
etc.
497;
bombast
etc.
(unmeaning)
517;
anticlimax,
bathos;
eccentricity,
monstrosity
etc.
(unconformity)
83;
laughingstock
etc.
857.
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Roget 814:
dearness
etc.
adj.;
high price,
famine price,
fancy price;
overcharge;
extravagance;
exorbitance,
extortion;
heavy pull upon the purse.
Roget 549:
exaggeration;
expansion
etc.
194;
hyperbole,
stretch,
strain,
coloring;
high coloring,
caricature,
caricatura†;
extravagance
etc.
(nonsense)
497;
Baron Munchausen;
men in buckram,
yarn,
fringe,
embroidery,
traveler's tale;
fish story,
gooseberry [Slang].
storm in a teacup;
much ado about nothing
etc.
(overestimation)
482;
puff,
puffery
etc.
(boasting)
884;
rant
etc.
(turgescence)
577†.
figure of speech,
facon de parler [Fr.];
stretch of fancy,
stretch of the imagination;
flight of fancy
etc.
(imagination)
515.
false coloring
etc.
(falsehood)
544;
aggravation
etc.
835.
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Roget 499:
want of intelligence
etc.
498,
want of intellect
etc.
450;
shadowness†,
silliness,
foolishness
etc.
adj.;
imbecility,
incapacity,
vacancy of mind,
poverty of intellect,
weakness of intellect,
clouded perception,
poor head,
apartments to let;
stupidity,
stolidity;
hebetude†,
dull understanding,
meanest capacity,
shortsightedness;
incompetence
etc.
(unskillfulness)
699.
one's weak side,
not one's strong point;
bias
etc.
481;
infatuation
etc.
(insanity)
503.
simplicity,
puerility,
babyhood;
dotage,
anility†,
second childishness,
fatuity;
idiocy,
idiotism†;
driveling.
folly,
frivolity,
irrationality,
trifling,
ineptitude,
nugacity†,
inconsistency,
lip wisdom,
conceit;
sophistry
etc.
477;
giddiness
etc.
(inattention)
458;
eccentricity
etc.
503;
extravagance
etc.
(absurdity)
497;
rashness
etc.
863.
act of folly
etc.
699.
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Roget 497:
absurdity,
absurdness
etc.
adj.;
imbecility
etc.
499;
alogy†,
nonsense,
utter nonsense;
paradox,
inconsistency;
stultiloquy†,
stultiloquence†;
nugacity†.
blunder,
muddle,
bull;
Irishism†,
Hibernicism†;
slipslop†;
anticlimax,
bathos;
sophism
etc.
477.
farce,
galimathias†,
amphigouri†,
rhapsody;
farrago
etc.
(disorder)
59;
betise [Fr.];
extravagance,
romance;
sciamachy†.
sell,
pun,
verbal quibble,
macaronic†.
jargon,
fustian,
twaddle,
gibberish
etc.
(no meaning)
517;
exaggeration
etc.
549;
moonshine,
stuff;
mare's nest,
quibble,
self-delusion.
vagary,
tomfoolery,
poppycock,
mummery,
monkey trick,
boutade [Fr.],
escapade.
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