dissipation

nounamusement, entertainment, occasionally to excess

nounwantonness
noundisappearance

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noun amusement, entertainment, occasionally to excess

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decadence

noun. perversion; deterioration of morality

Word Origin & History

early 15c., "act of scattering," from Latin dissipationem (nominative dissipatio), noun of action from past participle stem of dissipare (see dissipate). Meaning "intemperate mode of living" is from 1784.

Example Sentences for dissipation

To do him justice, his dissipation of the past few months had not included women.

The gifts of nature had been the instruments of dissipation.

Still he pursued his plan, and sought for safety in a course of dissipation.

No taint of vice or dissipation had ever sullied the brightness of his pleasant life.

It was his dissipation; there was something vaguely perilous in the absorption of it.

I have a family to support, & I can't afford this kind of dissipation.

Not Loyd, however; he never kept late hours, nor had habits of dissipation.

Link Merwell showed signs of both suffering and dissipation.

Dissipation has never been a satisfactory substitute for happiness.

Some of the men were still sleeping off their dissipation of the night before.

dissipation

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consumption

debauchery

decadence

decomposition

diffusion

disappearance

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debauchery

decadence

decomposition

diffusion

disappearance

Synonyms for dissipation

consumption