exorbitance

exorbitance
Synonyms and related words:
abandon, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, boundlessness, burlesque, caricature, dilatation, dilation, egregiousness, enhancement, enlargement, enormousness, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitancy, expansion, extortionateness, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, inflation, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, magnification, monstrousness, nimiety, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overemphasis, overestimation, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overkill, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, overstatement, preposterousness, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up, radicalism, sensationalism, stretching, superlative, tall talk, too much, too-muchness, touting, travesty, unconscionableness, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness

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  • exorbitance — ⇒EXORBITANCE, subst. fém. Vx. Caractère de ce qui est exorbitant. Grâce à l exorbitance de mes années, mon monument est achevé (CHATEAUBR., Mém., t. 4, 1848, p. 605). Il [M. Thiers] accuse la mauvaise politique de l Empereur, l immodération de… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Exorbitance — Ex*or bi*tance, Exorbitancy Ex*or bi*tan*cy,, n. A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • exorbitance — index boom (prosperity), exaggeration, plethora Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • exorbitance — mid 15c., from EXORBITANT (Cf. exorbitant) + ANCE (Cf. ance) …   Etymology dictionary

  • exorbitance — n. pl. exorbitancies [eg zôr′bi təns, igzr̄′bi təns] n. [ME exorbitaunce: see EXORBITANT] 1. a going beyond what is right or reasonable, as in demands, prices, etc.; extravagance 2. Archaic lawlessness: Also exorbitancy n. exorbitancies …   English World dictionary

  • exorbitance — (è gzor bi tan s ) s. f. Néologisme. Qualité de ce qui est exorbitant. •   On donnait pour preuve de l exorbitance de ces profits [des fournisseurs] l élévation, progressive chaque année, du prix des draps de troupes, laquelle contrastait avec l… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • exorbitance — exorbitant ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high. DERIVATIVES exorbitance noun exorbitantly adverb. ORIGIN from Latin exorbitare go off the track …   English terms dictionary

  • exorbitance — noun Date: 1609 1. an exorbitant action or procedure; especially excessive or gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety 2. the tendency or disposition to be exorbitant …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • exorbitance — /ig zawr bi teuhns/, n. the quality of being exorbitant; excessiveness. Also, exorbitancy. [1400 50; late ME exorbitaunce; see EXORBITANT, ANCE] * * * …   Universalium

  • exorbitance — noun a) The state or characteristic of being exorbitant. b) A large excess …   Wiktionary

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