About The Word Prodigality
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Prodigality
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What's The Definition Of Prodigality?
[n] excessive spending
[n] the trait of spending extravagantly Synonyms | Synonyms for Prodigality: extravagance | extravagance | high life | highlife | lavishness | profligacy Related Terms | Find terms related to Prodigality: See Also | dissipation | improvidence | shortsightedness | waste | wastefulness Prodigality In Webster's Dictionary \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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