dissipation
/ˌdɪsɪˈpeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.81 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "without loss or dissipation of the matter"
- "the famous dissipation of mankind"
- "18th century, Patrick Henry in a parliamentary debate to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance"
- "I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch."
- "He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation."
- "[...] This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, [...]"
Etymology
From Middle English dissipacion, dissipacioun, from Late Latin dissipātiō. Morphologically dissipate + -ion.