extravagancia

f.

1 eccentricity.

2 extravagance, eccentricity, oddity, oddness.

3 extravagant act, quirk, eccentricity, extravaganza.

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extravagancia

► nombre femenino

1 extravagance, eccentricity

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SF

1) (=cualidad) [de persona, aspecto, ropa] extravagance, outlandishness

2) (=capricho) whim

tiene sus extravagancias — he has his oddities o peculiarities

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femenino (acto) outrageous thing (to do); (cualidad) extravagance

su extravagancia en el vestir — the outlandish o extravagant way he dresses

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= flamboyance, extravagance, quirk, outrageousness, exoticism, whimsy, waywardness, geekiness, eccentricity, whim, peculiarity.

Ex. The flamboyance of the earliest modern face proved evanescent, and it was a restrained interpretation of the design, combining elements of both the English and the French modern faces, that prevailed.

Ex. Sometimes even an added entry is considered an extravagance.

Ex. Biographers will find many, hitherto undiscovered, traits of character or quirks of career of the famous or notorious emerging out of apparently insignificant or unremarked ephemera.

Ex. However, it is ironic that the author's first venture into the world of children's books is a disappointment because it does not have the puerile outrageousness of her 'adult' work.

Ex. The article is entitled 'Diplomatics for photographic images: academic exoticism?'.

Ex. Science is not necessarily a subject but a means of controlling the waywardness and whimsy to which the mind is susceptible.

Ex. Science is not necessarily a subject but a means of controlling the waywardness and whimsy to which the mind is susceptible.

Ex. We will evaluate proposals on criteria of usefulness, newness, geekiness, and diversity of topics.

Ex. In spite of his growing eccentricity, fruitful ideas continued to spring from his imagination.

Ex. If terms are drawn from a controlled vocabulary, the selection of index headings no longer depends entirely upon the whim of the author in framing a title.

Ex. For, as Panizzi saw it, 'A reader may know the work he requires; he cannot be expected to know all the peculiarities of different editions; and this information he has a right to expect from the catalogues'.

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* extravagancia típica de los hippies = hippiedom.

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femenino (acto) outrageous thing (to do); (cualidad) extravagance

su extravagancia en el vestir — the outlandish o extravagant way he dresses

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= flamboyance, extravagance, quirk, outrageousness, exoticism, whimsy, waywardness, geekiness, eccentricity, whim, peculiarity.

Ex: The flamboyance of the earliest modern face proved evanescent, and it was a restrained interpretation of the design, combining elements of both the English and the French modern faces, that prevailed.

Ex: Sometimes even an added entry is considered an extravagance.

Ex: Biographers will find many, hitherto undiscovered, traits of character or quirks of career of the famous or notorious emerging out of apparently insignificant or unremarked ephemera.

Ex: However, it is ironic that the author's first venture into the world of children's books is a disappointment because it does not have the puerile outrageousness of her 'adult' work.

Ex: The article is entitled 'Diplomatics for photographic images: academic exoticism?'.

Ex: Science is not necessarily a subject but a means of controlling the waywardness and whimsy to which the mind is susceptible.

Ex: Science is not necessarily a subject but a means of controlling the waywardness and whimsy to which the mind is susceptible.

Ex: We will evaluate proposals on criteria of usefulness, newness, geekiness, and diversity of topics.

Ex: In spite of his growing eccentricity, fruitful ideas continued to spring from his imagination.

Ex: If terms are drawn from a controlled vocabulary, the selection of index headings no longer depends entirely upon the whim of the author in framing a title.

Ex: For, as Panizzi saw it, 'A reader may know the work he requires; he cannot be expected to know all the peculiarities of different editions; and this information he has a right to expect from the catalogues'.

* extravagancia típica de los hippies = hippiedom.

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extravagancia

feminine

1 (acto) outrageous thing (to do)

se puede esperar cualquier extravagancia de él he's capable of doing some outrageous o very strange things

2 (cualidad) extravagance

su extravagancia en el vestir the outlandish o extravagant o outrageous way he dresses

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extravagancia sustantivo femenino (acto) outrageous thing (to do);
(cualidad) extravagance
extravagancia sustantivo femenino extravagance
'extravagancia' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
chifladura
- decir
- humorada
English:
extravagance

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extravagancia nf

1. [excentricidad] eccentricity

2. [rareza] outlandishness

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extravagancia

f eccentric behavior o Br

behaviour;

una de sus extravagancias one of his eccentricities

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extravagancia nf

: extravagance, outlandishness, flamboyance