Profligacy

3 definitions found

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

  Profligacy \Prof"li*ga*cy\, n. [See {Profligate}, a.]
     The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or
     very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in
     moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  profligacy
       n 1: the trait of spending extravagantly [syn: {extravagance}, {prodigality}]
       2: dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure [syn: {dissipation},
           {dissolution}, {licentiousness}]

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

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "profligacy":
     carnality, corruption, debauchery, degeneracy, depravity,
     dissipation, dissoluteness, eroticism, evil, excess, exorbitance,
     extravagance, immorality, improvidence, indecency, lasciviousness,
     lavishness, lechery, lewdness, libertinism, licentiousness,
     perversion, prodigality, promiscuity, recklessness, sensuality,
     sin, sinfulness, squandering, sybaritism, unrestraint, vice,
     voluptuousness, wantonness, waste, wastefulness, wickedness