exorbitance

[ ig-zawr-bi-tuhns ]

noun

1. the quality of being exorbitant; excessiveness.

Word History and Origins

Origin of exorbitance¹

1400–50; late Middle English exorbitaunce; exorbitant, -ance

Example Sentences

“Do you need to have all this excess and exorbitance spent on making a bathroom experience fun and exciting?”

From Seattle Times

American exorbitance allows other nations to offer price-controlled universal care with none of the decline in quality, technology or productivity that would otherwise result from central planning.

From Washington Post

And sadness, like exorbitance, depends entirely upon what it’s being compared to.

From The New Yorker

Maybe its exorbitance seemed too out of place for two travelers who had spent the last several days discovering the unpretentious beauty of Hawaii.

From New York Times

What's interesting about all this is not that people at the bottom of the market get fleeced, but rather that those same tactics – complexity and exorbitance – are deployed by the mainstream as well.

From The Guardian