dissipation
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- noun
- /ˌdɪsɪˈpeɪʃən/
- NSFW
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disipación
- The party was full of excess and dissipation, with guests indulging in every pleasure without a care in the world.
- life of dissipation
Examples
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Many young people are drawn into a lifestyle of dissipation, spending their days in parties and nights in reckless fun.
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After all, a mother's job is to prevent her family's imperceptible drift into dissipation.
Academic text (2001) -
Of course, vice, dissipation and idleness mean that it can be lost.
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Of course, in a culture devoted to dissipation at every level, there is no real need for a conspiracy to get folks to dissipate.
Blog text (12) -
Anger and impatience burst out as he described the general dissipation in the mansion house.
Fiction book (1992) -
He spent the money from these sales on a life of idleness and dissipation, riding, hunting, drinking, and gambling.
Fiction book (1998) -
Lady Susan's neglect of her late husband, her extravagance and dissipation, her encouragement of other men, were so notorious...
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Carlos Monsivais states that Lara's figure has survived because of the manner in which he portrayed and perpetuated the myth of his personal life: bohemia, dissipation, love without limits, passions without hope.
Academic text (1996) -
His life of dissipation eventually led to regrets, as he squandered both time and opportunities in pursuit of fleeting pleasures.
Synonyms
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6.0
A small pleasure you allow yourself, often without much self-control
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8.1
A decline in morals when people enjoy luxury and pleasure too much
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9.1
Too much drinking and sex for pleasure
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6.8
Giving yourself too much pleasure or comfort
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9.8
A very wasteful use of money or things that shows little care about cost
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9.9
A lack of moral control over sexual behavior
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6.1
Doing too much of something enjoyable, often food or treats, that causes harm
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8.5
A life of too much sex and drinking
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Doing or having too much of something without control
A lack of moral control that makes a person enjoy too many physical pleasures
A lack of moral restraint shown by sexual or improper behavior
A way of behaving that is too much
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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The release of heat from a machine or device to prevent overheating
How Indulgent
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9.1
- Formal
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9.8
- NSFW
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6.0
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dissipation also came to mean giving yourself up to pleasure, like 'scattering' your strength and self-control, and it is the same idea behind dissipate. So, dissipation can mean excessive pleasure or behavior that wastes health, money, or discipline.