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All wastefulness synonyms

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noun wastefulness

  • overdose — An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
  • icing on the cake — a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
  • lavishness — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
  • byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
  • immoderation — lack of moderation.
  • wildness — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
  • nimiety — excess; overabundance: nimiety of mere niceties in conversation.
  • wastage — loss by use, wear, decay, etc.
  • luxuriance — luxuriant growth or productiveness; rich abundance; lushness.
  • waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
  • extravagance — Lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources.
  • extravagancy — (archaic, 17-19th centuries) The characteristic of being extravagant.
  • inordinateness — The quality of being inordinate; unreasonable excess.
  • inefficiency — the quality or condition of being inefficient; lack of efficiency.
  • dissoluteness — indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; licentious; dissipated.
  • fulsomeness — The state or quality of being fulsome or showing overdone and insincere flattery.
  • improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
  • excess — An amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable.
  • overdoing — to do to excess; overindulge in: to overdo dieting.
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