Extravagance
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Extravagance is unrestrained excess. Extravagant behaviour includes the frequent purchase of luxury goods and was once considered one of the seven deadly sins, being called, in Latin, luxuria. As a result of semantic change in the Romance languages, lust later replaced it in the list. Classical authors such as Aeschines and Plutarch earlier condemned the τρυφἠ (tryphé) of Romans such as Crassus and Lucullus which included lavish dinner parties and ostentatious buildings.[1]
The extent of a person's habitual extravagance may be measured as a personality trait. For example, the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) contains 7 questions which measure extravagance or its opposite, reserve. These then form a subscale of the novelty seeking dimension of that personality, along with excitability, impulsiveness and disorderliness, or their opposites, rigidity, reflectiveness and regimentation.[2]
References
- ^ Jennifer Wright Knust (2006), "Extravagant excess", Abandoned to lust, Columbia University Press, p. 32, ISBN 9780231136624
{{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ Armand Walter Loranger (1997), Assessment and diagnosis of personality disorders, Cambridge University Press, p. 14, ISBN 9780521580434
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