exorbitance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=or=bi=tance

CIDE DICTIONARY

exorbitance, 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 demands.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
"The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

exorbitance

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

ROGET THESAURUS

exorbitance

Redundancy

N redundancy, redundance, too much, too many, superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation, nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness, profusion, repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share, more than enough, plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener, turgescence, overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow, inundation, avalanche, accumulation, heap, drug, drug in the market, glut, crowd, burden, excess, surplus, overplus, epact, margin, remainder, duplicate, surplusage, expletive, work of supererogation, bonus, bonanza, luxury, intemperance, extravagance, exorbitance, lavishment, pleonasm, too many irons in the fire, embarras de richesses, redundant, too much, too many, exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish, prodigal, exorbitant, overweening, extravagant, overcharged, supersaturated, drenched, overflowing, running over, running to waste, running down, crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing, gorged, ready to burst, dropsical, turgid, plethoric, obese, superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess, over and above, de trop, adscititious, supernumerary, on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive, un peu fort, over, too, over and above, overmuch, too much, too far, without measure, beyond measure, out of measure, with a to spare, over head and ears, up to one's eyes, up to one's ears, extra, beyond the mark, acervatim, it never rains but it pours, fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis, Degree of Subservience.

Dearness

N dearness, high price, famine price, fancy price, overcharge, extravagance, exorbitance, extortion, heavy pull upon the purse, dear, high, high priced, of great price, expensive, costly, precious, worth a Jew's eye, dear bought, at a premium, not to be had, not to be had for love or money, beyond price, above price, priceless, of priceless value, unreasonable, extravagant, exorbitant, extortionate, overpriced, more than it's woth, dear, dearly, at great cost, heavy cost, a grands frais, prices looking up, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle, le cout en ote le gout, vel prece vel pretio, too high a price to pay, not worth it.