noun
- Excessive or imprudent expenditure: extravagance, extravagancy, lavishness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, squander, waste. See careful/careless, save/waste.
wastefulness
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The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
the trait of wasting resources
Synonyms: thriftlessness, waste
Meaning #2:
useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
Synonyms: waste, dissipation
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