as in excessiveness
a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits an exorbitance that seemed to have been brought about by a midlife crisis

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Recent Examples of exorbitance The exorbitance of Park Place, the alien sound of Kamchatka and Irkutsk — these were backward-feeling games that urged ravenous competition. Dan Zak, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023 Still, there’s a big difference between real, existing social democracy — of the sort on display in Denmark or Sweden —and the Christmas list exorbitance of the DSA platform. Will Wilkinson, Vox, 16 Aug. 2018

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“Exorbitance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exorbitance. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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