Synonyms: lavishness, prodigality, extravagance, high life, highlife
Definition: excessive spending
Similar words: waste, wastefulness, dissipation
Definition: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
Usage: if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste; mindless dissipation of natural resources
Synonyms: extravagance, prodigality, profligacy
Definition: the trait of spending extravagantly
Similar words: improvidence, shortsightedness
Definition: a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources
Synonyms: extravagance, extravagancy
Definition: the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
Usage: we were surprised by the extravagance of his description
Similar words: inordinateness, excess, excessiveness
Definition: immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits