[syn: profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness]
The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
profligacy
n 1: the trait of spending extravagantly [syn: extravagance,
prodigality, profligacy]
2: dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure [syn: profligacy,
dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness]
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