Meaning of PRODIGALITY
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- [n] excessive spending
- [n] the trait of spending extravagantly
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| | Synonyms: | | extravagance, extravagance, high life, highlife, lavishness, profligacy |
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| | See Also: | | dissipation, improvidence, shortsightedness, waste, wastefulness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Prod`i*gal"i*ty\, n. [F. prodigalit['e], L.
prodigalitas. See {Prodigal}.]
Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive
liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to {frugality},
{economy}, and {parsimony}.``The prodigality of his wit.''
--Dryden.
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