Usually means: Excessive or wasteful expenditure; lavishness.
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  1. prodigality: Merriam-Webster
  2. prodigality: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prodigality: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prodigality: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prodigality: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prodigality, prodigality: Wordnik
  7. prodigality: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prodigality: Wiktionary
  9. prodigality: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. prodigality: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Prodigality, prodigality: Dictionary.com
  12. Prodigality: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. prodigality: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. prodigality: Rhymezone
  15. Prodigality: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. prodigality: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. prodigality: FreeDictionary.org
  18. prodigality: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. prodigality: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prodigality: Legal dictionary

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  1. prodigality: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prodigality)

▸ noun:  Wasteful extravagance.
▸ noun:  Lavish generosity.

Similar:
profligacy, extravagance, lavishness, profusion, prodigence, prodigus, profligate, wastefulness, extravagantness, overgenerosity, more...

Phrases:
excess or prodigality, more...

Adjectives:
such, reckless, lavish, greatest, boundless, careless, very, wasteful, thoughtless, public, mad

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Similar:
profligacy, extravagance, lavishness, profusion, prodigence, prodigus, profligate, wastefulness, extravagantness, overgenerosity, more...

Phrases:
excess or prodigality, more...

Adjectives:
such, reckless, lavish, greatest, boundless, careless, very, wasteful, thoughtless, public, mad



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