Meaning of IMPROVIDENCE
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| | Definition: | | [n] a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources |
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| | Synonyms: | | shortsightedness |
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| | Antonyms: | | providence | | |
| | See Also: | | extravagance, imprudence, prodigality, profligacy, thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Im*prov"i*dence\, n. [L. improvidentia; OF.
improvidence. Cf. {Imprudence}.]
The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or
thrift.
The improvidence of my neighbor must not make me
inhuman. --L'Estrange.
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| | Related Terms: | | brashness, brass, brazen boldness, cheek, chutzpah, fecklessness, gall, hastiness, heedlessness, heroics, hubris, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, lax stewardship, negligence, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, poor husbandry, rashness, shiftlessness, temerariousness, temerity, thoughtlessness, thriftlessness, unchariness, unwariness |
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