Improvidence

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Improvidence \Im*prov"i*dence\, n. [L. improvidentia; OF.
     improvidence. Cf. {Imprudence}.]
     The quality of being improvident; lack of foresight or
     thrift.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           The improvidence of my neighbor must not make me
           inhuman.                                 --L'Estrange.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  improvidence
       n : a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of
           resources [syn: {shortsightedness}] [ant: {providence}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "improvidence":
     brashness, brass, brazen boldness, cheek, chutzpah, fecklessness,
     gall, hastiness, heedlessness, heroics, hubris, imprudence,
     impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence,
     lax stewardship, negligence, overboldness, overcarelessness,
     overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, poor husbandry,
     rashness, shiftlessness, temerariousness, temerity,
     thoughtlessness, thriftlessness, unchariness, unwariness
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  IMPROVIDENCE, n.  Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues
  of to-morrow.