prodigality

prodigality
    n 1: the trait of spending extravagantly [syn: {extravagance},
         {prodigality}, {profligacy}]
    2: excessive spending [syn: {extravagance}, {prodigality},
       {lavishness}, {highlife}, {high life}]
    

Prodigality \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.
   [1913 Webster]
    

217 Moby Thesaurus words for "prodigality":
      abundance, affluence, aggrandizement, amorality, ample sufficiency,
      ampleness, amplification, amplitude, avalanche, backsliding,
      ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, bonanza, bounteousness,
      bountifulness, bountiousness, bounty, bumper crop, burlesque,
      caricature, carnality, cloud of words, copiousness, crapulence,
      crapulency, crapulousness, criminality, delinquency, deluge,
      diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dilatation, dilation,
      dissipation, drunkenness, effusion, effusiveness,
      embarras de richesses, enhancement, enlargement, enough, evil,
      evil nature, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness,
      exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme,
      exuberance, fecundity, fertility, flood, flow, fluency, foison,
      formlessness, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness,
      gluttony, grandiloquence, great abundance, great plenty, gush,
      gushing, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism,
      immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, immorality, improvidence,
      impurity, incontinence, indiscipline, indulgence, inflation,
      inordinacy, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness,
      inundation, landslide, lavishness, liberality, liberalness,
      logorrhea, lots, luxuriance, luxuriousness, luxury, macrology,
      magnification, maximum, money to burn, moral delinquency,
      more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, opulence,
      opulency, outpour, outpouring, overabundance, overaccumulation,
      overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdoing, overdose,
      overemphasis, overestimation, overflow, overindulgence, overkill,
      overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness,
      overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation,
      overprofusion, overstatement, oversufficiency, oversupply,
      palilogy, peccability, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness,
      plenty, pleonasm, plethora, prevalence, productiveness,
      productivity, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy,
      prolificity, puffery, puffing up, quantities, rampancy, rankness,
      recidivism, recklessness, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness,
      repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion,
      rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, scads,
      self-indulgence, sensationalism, shower, spate, squandering,
      stream, stretching, substantiality, substantialness, sumptuousness,
      superabundance, superfluity, superflux, superlative, swinishness,
      talkativeness, tall talk, tautology, teemingness, tirade, too much,
      too-muchness, touting, travesty, unangelicalness, unchastity,
      uncleanness, unconstraint, uncontrol, ungodliness, ungoodness,
      unmorality, unrestraint, unrighteousness, unsaintliness,
      unvirtuousness, vice, viciousness, wantonness, waste, wastefulness,
      waywardness, wealth, wrongdoing