MEANING
Lack of foresight in managing resources or preparing for future needs.
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- financial improvidence
- habitual improvidence
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Financial improvidence left the family unprepared for the winter.
His habitual improvidence turned every delay into a crisis.
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- improvidence
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Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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