The quality of being overflowing; abundance. In early use also: †superfluity, excess, extravagance (obsolete).

Reckless wastefulness of one's property or means; profligacy.

Reckless wastefulness of one's property or means; foolish generosity; profligacy.

The fact or quality of being improvident; lack of foresight or regard for the future; recklessness; thriftlessness.

Reckless extravagance, esp. in living; wastefulness; also, an act or case of wastefulness.

= extravagance, n. 4. Obsolete.

Excessive prodigality or wastefulness in expenditure, household management, etc.

wastefulness, improvidence.

A hand-to-mouth economic system, lifestyle, etc.; lack of provision for the future.

the state or quality of being spendthrift.

Want of foresight; improvidence.

The act or quality of being spendthrifty.

With allusion to the fable of the ant and the grasshopper: the practice of living in a frivolous manner, without planning or preparing for the…