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prodigalities

prodigalities is the plural of prodigality.

Meaning of prodigality

Noun

prodigality (countable and uncountable, plural prodigalities)

  1. Wasteful extravagance.
    • The plain where he was riding was one immense thicket of the gum cistus, whose frail white leaves, just veined with the faintest pink, fell in showers at the least movement of the passer-by. What a prodigality of blossom!—for the gum cistus, born and withered in an hour, is the most ephemeral of...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 339
  2. Lavish generosity.
    • At least there was an air of reckless prodigality in their appearance, and the most fastidious guest would surely find the wine his soul craved for, at all events) in the label.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 92

Questions about prodigalities

What is prodigalities the plural of?
Prodigalities is the plural of prodigality.

Words near prodigalities in the dictionary

  1. prodigalised
  2. prodigalises
  3. prodigalish
  4. prodigalising
  5. prodigalism
  6. prodigalities
  7. prodigality
  8. prodigalize
  9. prodigalized
  10. prodigalizes
  11. prodigalizing

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