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| Main Entry: |
dissoluteness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissipation |
| Synonyms: | corruption, corruptness, debauchery, dissolution, licentiousness, profligacy |
| Main Entry: | improbity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, corruptness, decadence, degeneration, degradation, depravity, dishonesty, evil, immorality, impurity, infamy, iniquity, looseness, lubricity, perversion, profligacy, sinfulness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vulgarity, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | independency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abandonment, ability, autonomy, bent, carte blanche, compass, discretion, elbowroom, exemption, facility, flexibility, free rein, full play, full swing, immunity, independence, indulgence, laissez faire, latitude, laxity, leeway, liberty, margin, opportunity, own accord, play, plenty of rope, power, prerogative, privilege, profligacy, rampancy, range, rein, right, rope, scope, self-government, sovereignty, sweep, swing, unrestraint |
| Main Entry: | libertinism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | license |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, animalism, arrogance, audacity, boldness, complacency, debauchery, disorder, dissoluteness, dissolution, effrontery, excess, forwardness, gluttony, immoderation, impropriety, irresponsibility, lawlessness, laxity, licentiousness, looseness, presumptuousness, prodigality, profligacy, refractoriness, relaxation, relaxedness, sauciness, self-indulgence, sensuality, slackness, temerity, unrestraint, unruliness, wantonness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | licentiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | license |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, animalism, arrogance, audacity, boldness, complacency, debauchery, disorder, dissoluteness, dissolution, effrontery, excess, forwardness, gluttony, immoderation, impropriety, irresponsibility, lawlessness, laxity, libertinism, looseness, presumptuousness, prodigality, profligacy, refractoriness, relaxation, relaxedness, sauciness, self-indulgence, sensuality, slackness, temerity, unrestraint, unruliness, wantonness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | prodigality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extravagance |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, extravagancy, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, waste, wastefulness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | self-government |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abandonment, ability, autonomy, bent*, carte blanche, compass, discretion, elbowroom, exemption, facility, flexibility, free rein, full play, full swing, immunity, independence, independency, indulgence, laissez faire, latitude, laxity, leeway, liberty, margin, opportunity, own accord, play, plenty of rope, power, prerogative, privilege, profligacy, rampancy, range, rein, right, rope, scope, sovereignty, sweep, swing, unrestraint |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wastefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extravagance |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, extravagancy, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, waste, wildness |
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| Main Entry: | extravagance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
Lucullan, dissipated, extravagant, fullhanded, improvident, lavish, losel, nimious, overliberal, penny, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful
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