The word "prodigality" is correct and usable in written English.
It means generous or wasteful spending of money or resources. You can use it in a variety of contexts. For example, "The prodigality of his father allowed him to grow up in a life of comfort and luxury."
It may seem at times as if no filmmaker was as prodigal with his own genius as was Orson Welles though the difference between prodigality and liberality is merely in the quality of the reception.
The people powered America; the Senate was the people's house; and the man who preserved the Senate, in all its glory and prodigality and arcane complexity, was Robert C. Byrd, King of Pork and senator senatorum.
They may have asked why they should rescue Dubai from the consequences of its own prodigality.
He preached austerity, yet practised prodigality, doling out favours and privileges with flair and precision.
Their candidates for governor in California and Florida both hold narrow leads in the polls, despite the prodigality of their millionaire opponents.
His thinking was shared by his generals, who had been awed by the prodigality with which the Soviets squandered their troops in the fighting of 1941 and the spring of 1942.
He was seen as a man of state who was torn between loyalty to his king and loyalty to his compatriots, who were incensed by the German queen's prodigality and the growing influence of her entourage.
He had about him "a sort of swell and overflow as of a prodigality of life," an American journalist said.
Objecting to the prodigality of the German followers of Andrew's first wife, Gertrude of Meran, rebellious nobles murdered her in 1213.
After seemingly interminable blackouts and no street lighting, this did indeed "seem the most amazing thing – this prodigality with light", as Alan Bennett would express it when describing his VE memories (improbably enough of Guildford, to where his parents had moved briefly from Leeds).
Worship of the gods involved sacrifices (including human), chants and recitations, feasting (often with great prodigality), ritual sex (to promote fertility), and other elaborate practices, often preceded by long fasting and abstinence.
