prodigality
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- noun
- /ˌprɒdɪˈɡæləti/
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prodigalidad
We can say that a person has the virtue of generosity or they have the vice of prodigality, right?
- We can say that a person has the virtue of generosity or they have the vice of prodigality, right?
Examples
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That such general well-being is still no excuse for material prodigality increases the attention due to the twin issue of sexual spending.
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The shorthand logic is: since spending wants savings, prodigality wants discipline.
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"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough."
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But materially he learns about the generosity or expenditure necessary to a giver: that is, the relation of giving to prodigality.
Academic text (1992) -
To say, indeed, that Carlyle was merely indifferent to waste is an understatement: he seems actively to embrace prodigality, as if this were a measure of the extent to which one seized the possibilities life had to offer in order to live it to the full.
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His prodigality led to significant financial trouble as he often spent more than he earned.
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The prodigality of the event shocked many guests, with lavish decorations and abundant food.
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After years of prodigality, she decided to start saving money and living within her means.
Synonyms
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Spending a lot of money in a wasteful way
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A very wasteful use of money or things that shows little care about cost
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Using money or things carelessly in a way that causes extra loss
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Using valuable things like time or money in a wasteful way
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A way of using a lot of money or things to show wealth
A habit of wasting money by buying things you do not need
A habit of spending money and not saving for the future
Antonyms
How Wasteful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word prodigality is like the word prodigal, which came from an old Latin idea of giving things 'forth' and meant 'to spend freely'. So, prodigality is the habit of using or spending money or things in a very wasteful way.