profligacy

3 definitions found

profligacy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

profligacy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

profligacy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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