Why this word is great
EXTRAVAGANZA — [Noun] An elaborate, spectacular, and often extravagant performance or event, typically marked by grandeur and excess. From Italian stravaganza ("extravagance"), influenced by English extravagance, ultimately from Latin extra ("outside") + vagari ("to wander"). Unlike "pageant" (which marches in orderly, historical procession) or "gala" (which sparkles with refined celebration), an extravaganza is a riot of sensory abandon, a deliberate defiance of restraint. It is the neon-lit carnival midway at midnight, the opera singer belting atop a mechanical elephant, the fireworks that outshine the stars—all of it teetering on the edge of absurdity, because excess, too, can be a kind of art.