exorbitance

exorbitance
    n 1: excessive excess [syn: {exorbitance}, {outrageousness}]
    

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 demands. "A curb to your
   exorbitancies." --Dryden.
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         The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions.
                                                  --Bp. Hall.
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81 Moby Thesaurus words for "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