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prodigality Synonyms

prodigality

n.

  1. Affluence

    money, profusion, abundance; see plenty, wealth 2.

  2. Wastefulness

    dissipation, lavishness, extravagance; see waste 1.

prodigality Quotes

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands†but†he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

—Smith, Adam