- Excessiveness, as of price or amount.
- Behavior or an action that exceeds what is right or proper.
exorbitance
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ex·or·bi·tance (ĭg-zôr'bĭ-təns)  |
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noun
- A condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate: embarrassment, excess, excessiveness, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, overabundance, plethora, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit. See excess/insufficiency/enough.
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IN BRIEF: Beyond usual and proper limits.
It was the exorbitance of the mansion that finally convinced them that the owners were very rich.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
excessive excess
Synonym: outrageousness
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