IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
 

Improvidence \Im*prov"i*dence\, n. [L. improvidentia; OF. improvidence. Cf. Imprudence.]

The quality of being improvident; lack of foresight or thrift. [1913 Webster]

The improvidence of my neighbor must not make me inhuman. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "improvidence": brashness, brass, brazen boldness, cheek, chutzpah, fecklessness, gall, hastiness, heedlessness, heroics, hubris, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, lax stewardship, negligence, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, poor husbandry, rashness, shiftlessness, temerariousness, temerity, thoughtlessness, thriftlessness, unchariness, unwariness

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improvidence

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Improvidence \Im*prov"i*dence\, n. [L. improvidentia; OF. improvidence. Cf. Imprudence.]

The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.

The improvidence of my neighbor must not make me inhuman. --L'Estrange.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)