About The Word Dissipation
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Dissipation
Dissipation Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Dissipation?
[n] useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
[n] dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure [n] breaking up and scattering by dispersion; "the dissipation of the mist" Synonyms | Synonyms for Dissipation: dissolution | licentiousness | profligacy | waste | wastefulness Related Terms | Find terms related to Dissipation: abandon | abandonment | ablation | amusement | attenuation | attrition | blackout | blocking | broadcast | broadcasting | carousal | carouse | carpe diem | circumfusion | conspicuous consumption | consumption | corrosion | debauch | debauchery | debauchment | decrease | decrement | deliquescence | dematerialization | departure | depletion | depreciation | diffraction | diffusion | dilution | disappearance | disappearing | dispensation | dispersal | dispersion | dissemination | dissoluteness | dissolution | dissolving | distraction | distribution | divergence | diversion | divertissement | drain | eclipse | elimination | entertainment | erasure | erosion | evanescence | evaporation | exhaustion | expansion | expenditure | extinction | extravagance | fadeaway | fadeout | fading | fastness | fragmentation | free living | gallantry | going | hedonism | high living | impoverishment | incontinence | intemperance | killing pace | lavishness | leakage | leaking purse | libertinage | libertinism | license | licentiousness | loose purse strings | loss | melting | occultation | orgy | overgenerosity | overgenerousness | overindulgence | overliberality | passing | peppering | pound-foolishness | prodigality | profligacy | profuseness | profusion | propagation | publication | radiation | rakishness | reckless expenditure | reckless spending | recklessness | recreation | riotous living | saturnalia | scattering | scatterment | self-gratification | self-indulgence | sensualism | shotgun pattern | shrinkage | sowing | spattering | splay | spread | spreading | sprinkling | squandering | squandermania | strewing | sybaritism | unbridledness | using | using up | vanishing | vanishing point | venery | volatilization | voluptuousness | wantonness | wastage | waste | wastefulness | wear and tear | wearing | wearing away | wenching | whoring | wildness | wipe See Also | activity | dispersion | extravagance | high life | highlife | intemperance | intemperateness | lavishness | prodigality | scattering | self-indulgence | squandering | waste of effort | waste of energy | waste of material | waste of money | waste of time Dissipation In Webster's Dictionary \Dis`si*pa"tion\, n. [L. dissipatio: cf. F.
dissipation.]
1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of
dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
Without loss or dissipation of the matter. --Bacon.
The famous dissipation of mankind. --Sir M. Hale.
2. A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc.,
are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in
vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.;
dissoluteness.
To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and
extravagance. --P. Henry.
3. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a
thousand avocations and dissipations. --Swift.
{Dissipation of energy}. Same as {Degradation of energy},
under {Degradation}.
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