Noun

(en-noun)

(uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness.

(countable) An imprudent act.

* {{quote-book, year=1753, author=Theophilus Cibber, title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences , he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Francois Coppee, title=Ten Tales, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Yes, for six months he threw all his medicines in the fire, and designedly committed all sorts of imprudences . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=S.C. Hill, title=Three Frenchmen in Bengal, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences . }}

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, year=1906 – 1921 , author= , title= , volume=1 , chapter=Encounter , passage=He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.}}

Noun

(en noun)

Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.

Prodigality as in extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.

:They spared nothing in obtaining extravagances for each other. Everything was lavish and wildly in excess. They were in love!

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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.